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an even larger change from Wiki meaning fast to Wiki meaning, as you say, a kind of web application.
Yes, though, the reason they called it wiki, besides the alliteration with web was because of the quick-turn-around in letting everybody edit the web pages; and, Cunningham saw Wiki wiki on the sides of shuttle buses at the Honolulu Airport. So that meaning is interposed between fast and the kind of web application.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Thing I like about the word wiki is that there's a faux etymology running around that it's pidgin from the English 'quick'. Then there's the Tahitian(?) viti which has it's own faux etymology that that it's pidgin from the French 'vite'. Only thing, wiki and viti are cognates.
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Only thing, wiki and viti are cognates.
Priceless.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Then there's the Tahitian(?) viti
Yes it is Tahitian.
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Then there's the Tahitian(?) viti
Yes it is Tahitian. I have heard of a writer from New Zealand called Witi Ihimaera. Is his name a cognate also?
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Is his name a cognate also?
I couldn't answer that knowingly but would hazard a guess and say no. You should read some of his works.
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