1894: China-Japan war
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Denasalization in Michif (and in Canadian French?)
One more trait of Chinuk Wawa that correlates with the Métis language, Michif…
More about General Pickett & a Jargon “Lord’s Prayer”
“Pickett and His Men” is a popular biography by [Mrs.] Lasalle Corbell Pickett (2nd edition; Atlanta, GA: The Foote & Davies Company) of her husband, Confederate States of America General George — one… Continue reading
“The Mantle of Elias” and Chinuk-Chehalis Wawa
See what you think of this further evidence that we should call Chinuk Wawa something more like Chinook-Chehalis Jargon.
1848: Allen, “Ten Years in Oregon: Travels and Adventures of Dr. E. White and Lady”
Here’s a wonderful book to read. Quite the palate cleanser, after slogging through Herbert Beaver’s letters, but that’s another story.
Chez vous
One use of the all-purpose preposition < kopa > (kʰapa) that may trace back to French influence is the “chez vous” expression.
Songs of LBDB (Part 2: “America”)
Now switching over to Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s “Chinook-English Songs” book…
Métis French is part English :)
When I look through a dictionary of Michif (mixed Cree-French language of Métis people, just possibly one of Chinuk Wawa’s ancestor languages), I see a good deal of French + English blending…
1891: Grotesque admixture…or just Jargon
From an article in a popular national newspaper (really a magazine) in the early post-frontier era…
And another Haida-style “northern song”!
Hayu masi kopa Deb Masso, who shared a song I’d never heard before…