Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 8: I’m not dead yeeeeeeeeeeeeeet)
Our BC friend Dale McCreery has shared quite a few of his personal encounters with Chinuk Wawa in the last several years.
Here’s another fun one, from September 15, 2012.
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I was talking to an old dude who grew up in Bella Coola, and he mentioned a couple expressions –
wik saaaaaaaayiii memaloose (excuse my orthography) – almost dead. he mentioned if you lengthened the word much more you’d probably be dead by the time you finished saying it.
sayii a’ilee – far away. I was curious about how he pronounced “ilihee” as “a’ilee” (‘ being a glottal stop) and was wondering if anyone here had heard that pronunciation before.
I appreciate the humor as a way of teaching folks about the leeeeeeengthening of streeeeeessed voooooowels in Chinook Jargon! 👌😁
