More humor in Chinuk Wawa: A 1916 “capucinade”
…A reminder that I’m also featuring non-Jargon humor from Kamloops Wawa, the “Chinook newspaper”!
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December 1894: “Our Monthly Budget” (Part 3 of 3: a gory story)
This mini-series gives you some nice chunks of material to practice reading.
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 4 “Whiskey” [A])
Song #4 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889)…
1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 5 of 5)
Qalis and Alex Code sent along the “Address Delivered at Dedication of Grand Ronde Military Block House at Dayton City Park, Oregon, Aug. 23, 1912” by M. C. George, published in The Quarterly… Continue reading
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 14: Sténographie Duployé
I reckon this one counts as a picture, in a way…
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 17)
The 17th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4-“O” (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: doing vs. causing)
Just putting this out there…Today I’ll do my poor imitation of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Shop.
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2C: Le Jeune 1924: other districts)
Continuing to sift through one of the on-the-spot reports about the differences between the 2 big Chinuk Wawa dialects…
Learning from the Lane learners (Part 8: “tastes like”)
Today I want to share how to talk about “tasting” in Jargon…
Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 8: keep it simple, stupid)
K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Stupid! This can’t be stressed enough.