On 7 Feb 2015, at 19:15, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > No trip to Maui is complete with out an image of the state fiss of Hawaii: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17962185&size=lg > Comments are invited > > The name means" trigger fish with a nose like a pig." > Not to be confused with the Lauwiliwilinukunukuoioi, the needle-nosed > butterfly fish, or "crazy fish with long long nose." >
Very nice fish. It sounds as though Hawaiian is as literal as Swahili. I remember walking on the reef in Zanzibar with a chap who was my 'fixer' and asking "what do you call those little black and white fish?" To which he replied "Mr. Bob, we call those 'the little black and white fish'". B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
