1885 Sacramento CPE: The glorious uncertainty
Two tie-ins to Chinuk Wawa here…
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1895: Everette’s dedication/insult to Powell
To our collection of the curiosities of Chinook, we can add this inscription made at the start of a vocabulary sent in to the Smithsonian…
恭喜發財! Chinese New Year from a Nez Perce perspective
Gung hay fat choy!
Is ‘dance’ in Jargon ONLY from English?
Nothing earth-shaking here 🙂
Wait, wait — I have ideas about “wait”!
“Possible maybe, definite might, most likely never!” — Hugo Largo, “Halfway Knowing“
HMCS Nootka
In the Canadian uniformed services, you sometimes find mottos in Chinuk Wawa… …Here’s yet another for our collection. Quoting from Wikipedia: HMCS Nootka was a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian… Continue reading
1907: “Naika thlosh” — Father Le Jeune incognito?
A reprinted BC article on Chinook Jargon is mostly old news, but there’s one excellent & genuine item in it…
LBDB: Prose, not lyrics (Part 5)
Today, in our examination of Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s rusty pioneer Chinook, let’s look at her contribution to a popular genre…
How many commandments is this, total? :) (10 Commandments, Part 2)
Part 1 (in effect) of this mini-series of multiple 10 Commandments was Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s, as presented in her little-known Chinuk Wawa dictionary.
1870: Discoveries confirmed, discoveries added
A territorial travelogue tells us a tiny tidbit or two of the Jargon. Some is new news!