South-North dialect difference: How to express “of/to” in “afraid of/to”
Getting around to writing this long-planned post the day after a “Joe Peter” group transcription session where the point came up…
Getting around to writing this long-planned post the day after a “Joe Peter” group transcription session where the point came up…
Just making sure I park this observation somewhere in public.
From the Youtube video “Louis Miranda: Squamish elder teaches Chinook Jargon“.
Is your head outside of your body? Talkin’ about exocentric compounds!
Not my idea. Thanks to Louis-Napoléon St Onge.
[Editing 02/15 to give it away: these are all 10 of the Chinook-Peipa number symbols, from 1 to 0, in order! Dave Robertson] It’s extra-hard to figure out because there are a couple… Continue reading
Yes, more good stuff for us to learn from. Here we have some very Catholic stuff.
Continuing our chronicle of “whole wheat” and Chinook Jargon as a Métis language:
The big pattern that I like to teach to folks is that —