Iskum = “to use” something for a purpose…and…
This post is a followup to one from 2021.
This post is a followup to one from 2021.
A rare exception to the academic paywall benefits us!
Once upon a time, I discovered that “Chinuk man = interpreter“.
AI works okay for some Chinook Jargon material…I don’t fully endorse it 😒
Sometimes, Adverbs can’t come before the verb.
If you can read between lines and supply stuff in virtual quotation marks, you’re my kinda person, internet reader!
I just wanted to drop a note to point out that the much-overused phrase “The Nor’west” in relation to our region’s fur-trade history is probably Canadian/Métis French, nord-ouest!
Here we have it from the horse’s mouth.
I’ll be double-dog-darned!
Fortunately for us, the acute-epithetted Alex Code noticed and made a captioned video of a Northern Chinook Jargon song that’s of some importance to us. This is a type of Chinook Jargon song… Continue reading →