There’s a Somali saying that the ear is older than the eye (dhegta ayaa ka da’ weyn isha). Through oral tradition we learn about people and places we’ll never see. And in the womb, we hear the outside world before we ever lay eyes on it. So much wisdom in a simple phrase.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
Looking through drone footage from my Hargeisa trip and came across this pair of lanner falcons. They made their nest on a telecom tower, high above the city centre. In Somali, we’d call a falcon gallaydh (gallayr) or baas.
Il faut avoir les nerfs solides pour suivre les matchs des équipes africaines commentés par des journalistes occidentaux. La condescendance, le manque de respect, de professionnalisme, d’éthique, de déontologie envers les africains est insupportable.
I think it’s interesting how from all the other “Muslim-majority” teams or Arab teams….it is the Bosnian fans that have brought up Palestine at every opportunity during the World Cup. I am glad for it and I remain, as always, perpetually proud of my people.