“If it weren’t for…”: the clearest counterfactuals
Humans have the ability to imagine alternatives to how things actually occur.
Humans have the ability to imagine alternatives to how things actually occur.
Previously, in this space: ‘Labrador tea‘ {yes, that’s a link} has come up only in (other) Métis languages.
The word mula in Spanish means a female mule; a male one is mulo.
Lots and lots of Chinook Jargon is connected with this item that belonged to U.E. Fries! Go see it all at the truly great Okanogan County Historical Museum in Okanogan, WA. 𛰅𛱁𛰃𛱂 𛰙𛱁𛱆𛰅𛱁… Continue reading →
An older person in Ketchikan, Alaska sang what they called “the Boy Scouts song” over the phone to me in 2003, and I had no way to audio-record it.
Did I find one of those kaltash tz’um love notes that the one chief was determined to burn?
I’m not getting any younger, these songs won’t record themselves, and clichés won’t get the job done either!
Here’s a sentence in Sliammon (a pretty far northern Coast Salish language of what’s now British Columbia):
About 3 years ago I introduced you to a Chinook Jargon song recorded in 1911 by Nez Perce tribal members.
Thanks to a conversation the other day with Doctors Henry Kammler and ƛukša Adam Werle, we have this thought.