old man emu

While it is reasonable to use indigenous words that had/have meaning in the speech of the people who used them, it is ridiculous to apply words for things that did not exist for those people. As an example, would the concept of "stairway" ever have existed until stairways had been introduced by people who made them? I believe that when the first overland explorers reached northern Australia, near the ocean, the local indigines saw the rifles of the explorers and immediately called them 'musquit' or similar. The reason? They had seen the muskets of the Dutch and Malays who came to fish in the area before the British explorers arrived from the South. The explorers would have been carrying rifles.

Yeah, but the Maori language is still a living language. I don't think that any of the indigenous languages of the Greater Sydney Area are still spoken.

The words identifying places in the map that PMCC posted are not locality names. They are the names identifying galleries in the Art Gallery. Got nothing to do with actual indigenous people. There's nothing wrong with applying an existing indiginous name to a locality. "What's in a name?" Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II). The name Gilgandra originates from an Indigenous word meaning "long water hole", which is a waterhole in the Castlereagh River alongside the main street. There are plenty of places in the local area that are of indigenous origin. Say the name and people can identify the location.

Update your data, GON. The Yanks want to create a massive arsenal storage in the middle of Victoria, and they are servicing their subs in W.A. Don't forget Tindall and Pine Gap. What's going on around Townsville?

I wonder how many people in the vicinity of the Art Gallery of NSW speak the Gadigal dialect of the clan that occupied that particular area in the past. I suspect none, and that any descendants have long since moved away.

This is a bit of trivia that you might find interesting.

I asked my local Toyota dealer if he thought he would be selling EV work vehicles to local agriculturalists. I put up the range limit point. He said that a lot of them were installing solar systems and those systems would enable recharging of EVs. Then I considered how the locals used their work vehicles and came to the conclusion that those vehicle were not driven on long trips. Most trips into the local town wouldn't be more than 50 kms and back. From my place to Dubbo and back is only 150 kms, plus about 10 for running around in Dubbo. That sort of distance is only about half the range of a full charge. We all know that cockies have sedans and SUVs for the longer trips. They are likely to be hybrids.

But there are still a lot of goslings who must remain connected to grid.

Yeah. I could not find anything online about damage to the roof. Mosty articles comment on the positioning of teh solar panels which crate those pyrimidal shapes designed to look like "fish scales". I suppose the curvature of the edge of the roof is to create the illusion of a piece of filleted fish.

Fact check results, please.

With temperatures like that I bet there wasn't much civility in Seville.

I wonder how much the Chinese Government holds as investments in Taiwanese companies nad others worldwide. In the 21st Century, the Chinese are not teh zealous devotees of Maoist Communism. They like a little bit of this, and a little bit of that and are prepared to let time heal any wounds.

The Trump administrtation is the greatest threat to world peace, ever. Hitler, Stalin, Mao and many others don't hold a candle to him. What is a further worry are the warhawks controlling the US military. Trump's threats to Iran are nothing more than extortion. And if Israel isn't hauled in, teh Middle East will still be a bubbling cauldron. Have you caught up with the new QANTAS route to London beginning late next year? It is a non-stop flight to London, avoiding the need for a stop in teh Middle East, of even overflying that part of the world.

Gee! Who's fault its that? Wall Street chasing the bottom line?

I have given some thought to the effect of the USA withdrawing its military from foreign bases. I'm ignoring the military aspects of such a withdrawal. Ever since 1945 American military personnel have been in Germany. Remember the Elvis movie G.I.Blues ? Can you imagine the economic impact on communities around US bases if those military personnel suddenly were taken away? Those military personnel would have spent billions over the years, and would spend millions annually on food, entertainment, recreational activities (vertical and horizontal). Oh what a tangled web are military alliances!