Painful cartoon in Chinook Jargon
Pick any side to side with and you’ll find this one painful.
Pick any side to side with and you’ll find this one painful.
More from the Youtube video “Louis Miranda: Squamish elder teaches Chinook Jargon“.
In the sterile conceptual ghetto of the “Young Folks” page in a midcentury USA newspaper, I found something precious.
Just below some jokey comments about cayuses (ponies, a Jargon word that became universally known in Pacific Northwest English), we have this…
I couldn’t be more pleased to discover this sorta (semantically) minimal pair.
I chanced upon a book review that I found to be very important.
My comment on Roy I. Rochon Wilson’s (1927-2025) Chinuk Wawa:
I’m going to repeat an old observation here, just so it gets filed with the rest of the Yakama Chinuk Wawa stuff.