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Oneball

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IT'S BACK BY POPULAR REQUEST!!!! (Well, one person suggested it.)

What is the Swahili word for 'journey'?

Ooh that word is my pet hate at the moment.

Is this the sort of journey where you go from Mombasa to Nairobi or the sort where a millennial sits in a room and talks about their sour dough addiction?
 

MarkMas

Chief pedant
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What's Swahili for 'No fūcking idea'?

Google translate says it is: "hakuna wazo la kutisha", but I have no idea whether that is right.

BUT, the best kind of quiz question, IMHO, is one where first you think:
"hakuna wazo la kutisha"
then you think:
"Why would I be asked for a translation into an obscure language?"
then
"There must be a trick to it."
then
"Maybe I know some Swahili words, but don't know it yet."
then
"So if I were making a journey in East Africa, and I had to guess a local word for it...."
 
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Abraham Lincoln, He is the only one of these to be granted a US patent.
Did the others all apply for US patent and were denied? What links the others if you say Lincoln is the odd one out? Is Lincoln the odd one out because he does or does not have something the others have? Maybe one of the others is the odd one out? If so, why?
 
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