1943, Alaska: “Barbs”
The ever-popular “folks talk weird on the frontier” trope!
Daily Archive: July 29, 2024
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1911: Dominion Day (Canada Day) invitation in Jargon
Identifiably Settler-style Chinuk Wawa augments some poetic excesses in English, in today’s “Chinook invitations” entry.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 14: playing music)
It’s kind of fun to learn how to talk about playing music in Chinook… (A link to all instalments in this mini-series.) You may learn a new word here…Look at my comments after… Continue reading