chako-[Ideophone.of.characteristic.sound] ?
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Ironic much? “Aboriginal lapel pin: CHEECHAKO”
Made me laugh when I found this one.
Some interesting “mamuk k̂ow X” expressions in St Onge’s dictionary
I invite my readers’ thoughts about these.
Do you hang out speaking Oregon Latin?
“From the Dalles correspondent of the Statesman“, a.k.a. BUNKUM:
2017, BC: A new, excellent Northern Chinook Jargon song
I’m glad I know people who watch videos online!
Kamloops Wawa humor: chamberpots (Part 1 of 2)
Sometimes cultural contact is funny.
Not from ‘chrism’
The Central and Southern Chinuk Wawa word for a ‘yellow / dun / buckskin-colored’ horse is likʰrem.
‘Ball’ is not bouncy (if it’s doing its job)
Riddle me (with) this…
Kamloops’ JMR Le Jeune’s letters to the inventor of Duployé shorthand (Part 1)
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading
tənəs-COLOR: inspired by Salish?
I’m not intending this to be the last word on the matter. I’ll be delighted if a Linguistics major steals this idea and does up a whole study on it!