Monthly Archive: July, 2022

Quinault Salish traces of Chinuk Wawa

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When you’re looking through a dictionary or other document about an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest, beware of remarks intended to be helpful, but that are often misleading.

‘ABLE :: FAST’, an Indigenous metaphor

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Sometimes you hear people say there’s a word in Chinook Jargon for ‘can’t’, but not for ‘can’…