Ads and cultural references
We’ve seen a number of ads that used Chinook Jargon. Image credit: DailyVerses.net Also advertisements 🙂 Here’s more, thanks to our reader Alex Code. This advert uses some frontier-era humour as well as… Continue reading
We’ve seen a number of ads that used Chinook Jargon. Image credit: DailyVerses.net Also advertisements 🙂 Here’s more, thanks to our reader Alex Code. This advert uses some frontier-era humour as well as… Continue reading →
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: