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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY / of the Pacific NW / with David Douglas "Chinook Man" Robertson, PhD

Daily Archive: March 31, 2022

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“They speak like birds”: An Indigenous metaphor, as reflected in CW

I’m guessing it means “they speak like idiots”?

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