‘Ball’ is not bouncy (if it’s doing its job)
Riddle me (with) this…
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Kamloops’ JMR Le Jeune’s letters to the inventor of Duployé shorthand (Part 1)
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading
tənəs-COLOR: inspired by Salish?
I’m not intending this to be the last word on the matter. I’ll be delighted if a Linguistics major steals this idea and does up a whole study on it!
Not from ‘quail’
‘Spotted, speckled’, a horse word in Chinuk Wawa, doesn’t come from the French word for the bird ‘quail’.
Is ‘purple’ in K’alapuyan from Métis/Canadian French?
And, by implication, should we take it as a Chinuk Wawa word?
One really commendable thing about St Onge’s dictionary
Cross-referencing.
lo vs. la for “law”: Competing English dialects influencing Chinuk Wawa, past and present (Warning: I’m going to call your accent THICK)
Ah, the story of lo and la and dueling English dialects!
1910, BC: Memorial To Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada, From the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia
Much as with the Stevens Treaties in the US, back-translation into Northern Chinook Jargon awaits this important BC document.
Where do cheechakoes come from?
Because “cheechako“, meaning a “newcomer” and borrowed from Chinook Jargon, is so important a concept in Pacific Northwest English-speaking culture…
1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 11 of 15 “Wake Si-yah Sahale Tyee, Kopa Mika”
Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett, “pioneer” daughter, left us with another fragrant specimen of the art of translation…