Small Pleasures, a short dramatic film in Chinook Wawa
“Small Pleasures” is a short dramatic film in Chinook Wawa by Karin Lee.
It’s set in Barkerville, BC, in the 1860s and features female characters of both Chinese and First Nations background.
What do you think?
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what a wonderful piece. does she say meseeka klootchman. did she mean maika klootchman or klootchman maika. neeka wake tikee kopa yaka. I don’t want with her. foo ling wawa mahsee meeka. or did she say neeka. mahsee mamook help tenas klootchman. this seemed good. the emphasis threw me off like kataa versus kaata. mamook kow lapea, kakwa elite versus elaite. elip tillikum for elders is interesting. kata mseeka man. why you/plural man. neeka tsolo. wake huloima tumtum means not different thinking. I think waakay klatawa tsolo should have been wake klatawa…meseeka klatawa tsolo translated as you are like a rabbit in a snare is difficult to see. neeka kloshe naneetch also as I am protected also a problem. I don’t want to be critical of this great effort but would be interested to see your parsing.
Mahsie, Sam,
A transcription of the dialogue would help for students of Chinook Jargon, wake nah?
I’ll see what I can do about that, and share it here.
(Lazy guy approach–maybe I could track down the filmmaker and ask for the sript!)
–Dave–