What's up, up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to Completely Arbitrary, the

podcast about trees and other related topics. I am one of your hosts. My name is Alex

Krossen and may I please say, Kiora.

What? What does that mean? To Casey Clap, our other host.

Oh, is that like a hello in a language I'm unfamiliar with?

Casey, it is.

Wow.

Last, if you recall last week, we made a bit of a cultural gaff.

Oh, a faux pa, if you will.

Oh, no.

By saying, good day. you will. Oh, no.

By saying good day when we are in New Zealand, not Australia.

Oh, I see.

I did a little bit of googling here.

And there is a greeting it says it's

kiora yeah this is actually two words kiaa like the car company space O-R-A.

Kia like the car company, okay. Kia, like the car company, okay. Kia.

Kia. But they kind of shorten it into Kiora like one like it sounds like one word

uh yeah all right kind of like good and day good day exactly k k k k k k k k k see

not to bring this back to a completely different thing I'm just saying it's there's a it's an unmistakable parallel.

Yeah, careful there. I would say actually a stronger parallel is the Hawaiian word aloha.

Because this can mean hello, goodbye, be well, be healthy.

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