mlai, n.canoe; car; automobile; transportation.
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blil a mlaiexpr.garage.
mlai er a Siabalexpr.Japanese car.
Examples:
> The car hit the telephone pole.
> Joseph drove his car to my house.
> Droteo fixes cars as well as you.
> If I had money, (then) I'd buy a new car.
> I carved the canoe and then painted it.
Proverbs:
> Don't be like the man from Ngerchemai who lost both the turtle and the canoe.
Don't bite off more than you can chew...don't be selfish.
> Like Kerosene, poling his canoe with no obvious destination
Under the German administrator Winkler before World War I, a Palauan named Ngirakerisil (Mr. Kerosene) was employed as a canoe operator. Daily he would take the tireless administrator to a different part of Palau to inspect the various economic programs (largely coconut planting) instituted by the now legendary Winkler. The operator, least of all, could predict where they would be going next. The idiom is applied to any aimless person or action; indecision; a changeable person.
> Like the man of Ngerechemai, who lost his turtle and lost his canoe.
Relates to a fisherman who jumped from his canoe to catch a turtle only to find that his canoe had drifted beyond recovery. Applies to any situation where a person fails at a task, or, aptly, to a situation where a man, through his own foolishness, loses both his wife and his mistress.
More Examples:
> I was driving to the store when I got a flat tire.
> My friend's friend got hit by a car. She is so lucky she didn't die.
> My younger brother and I were making our canoe.
> We were walking fine on the road until a really fast car sped by that abruptly forced us into a ditch.
> Luke told me there was a car outside.

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