Did You Know?

[Jemisa]

When settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal
that jumped extremely high and far.

They asked the Aboriginal people using body language & signs
trying to ask them about the animals.

They responded with "Kan Ghu Ru" the english then adopted
the word "Kangaroo".

What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was -
"We don't understand you" - Kan Ghu Ru"

jem

[Count-A-Strong]

From Wiki:
A common myth about the kangaroo's English name is that "kangaroo" was a Guugu Yimithirr phrase for "I don't understand you."[9] According to this legend, Lieutenant Cook and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks were exploring the area when they happened upon the animal. They asked a nearby local what the creatures were called. The local responded "Kangaroo", meaning "I don't understand you", which Cook took to be the name of the creature. The Kangaroo myth was debunked in the 1970s by linguist John B. Haviland in his research with the Guugu Yimithirr people.

[jackthehat]

I thought it was the Scottish cook trapped below deck who, at the moment Captain Cook asked the name of this strange bouncing creature was heard to shout

"Ah cant ger oot"..........?

[boxtops]

I did know this story, although with a slight variation - I'd heard that it meant "we don't know",