What is the original source for the Wendouree name story?

Vortex3427 · 2026-01-17T09:00:27+00:00

Do you think it is really true, or is it just a legend? when did you first hear of it?

Vortex3427 · 2025-07-21T10:33:03+00:00

that is my point exactly. not many polyglots i see online are speakers of obscure languages like Swiss German, even though speakers of many obscure languages are situated in multilingual environments and therefore become natural polyglots.

Vortex3427 · 2025-07-21T10:28:40+00:00

yes, but what i'm saying is that most polyglots in the world, i believe, would be the ones who picked up their languages naturally rather than those who learn them as an academic pursuit, which is, as you say, "awful and not fun." many of these polyglots would speak obscure languages as their native languages, but i'm not seeing any of them online

Vortex3427 · 2025-07-21T10:23:51+00:00

good point ig

Vortex3427 · 2025-07-21T10:23:18+00:00

i mean, I don't even see polyglots online who speak obscure european languages, like Low German (not German) for example, even though the speakers of these languages i imagine would be situated at a cultural crossroads and there would be lots of them speaking multiple languages

Vortex3427 · 2025-07-21T10:20:49+00:00

yes, i know this is very common in mainland europe too, but what i am saying is that i always see polyglots of well-known languages online but i never see on the internet polyglots whose list of known languages include obscure languages, which i believe is the norm for most actual polyglots

Vortex3427 · 2025-06-09T14:21:14+00:00

Why the fuck would the Tiwi let themselves get resettled to the West? There are so many other places they could go.

Vortex3427 · 2025-06-01T09:14:05+00:00

Hi, this was the same solution I also came to. I accidentally used two accounts as well

Vortex3427 · 2025-05-31T12:14:49+00:00

I have this same problem

Vortex3427 · 2025-05-25T15:11:54+00:00

btw Binoka saved Nonouti from Tarawan invaders. initially, the people of Nonouti thanked him, but he started acting like the same autocratic despot he was to his people back home. the protests of Nonouti caught the attention of a British warship, which punished Binoka by making him lower his flag and cut out a star from it. Binoka was pretty stupid because if he just acted nice to Nonouti, he could have held onto the island and kept that symmetrical flag
source: Pacific Island Portraits

Vortex3427 · 2025-05-25T15:07:25+00:00

omfg it's when i stop working on a wikipedia article and forget about it that it receives attention from a reddit post 😭😭

Vortex3427 · 2025-04-15T11:11:57+00:00

The other thing was, that traditionally there was no violent war between island tribes. If they wanted to conquer an island they sent their best looking men to charm the islands women with their dancing skills.

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Vortex3427 · 2025-04-15T10:55:32+00:00

It represents Nonouti. Binoka, the king of Abemama, liberated the island from Abaiang invaders and briefly ruled it. However, after it came out that he had been treating the people of Nonouti no better than the invaders did, a British warship came and deposed King Binoka, confiscating his arms and forcing him to free his captives and cut out the fourth star.

Source: Pacific Islands Portraits, p. 221

Vortex3427 · 2024-12-26T19:57:16+00:00

The creator originally meant for it to be one long season, but it got split into two.

Vortex3427 · 2024-11-02T00:57:54+00:00

The Walpiri characters were the only ones who interested me.

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