From Copenhagen to Okanogan, part 2
{Have you subscribed to get notified of my blog posts via email?} See my first post about this book for bibliographic info. In this installment, notice the vivid descriptions of sign language… Continue reading
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From Copenhagen to Okanogan, part 1
Part 1 of a multi-part blog post… “From Copenhagen to Okanogan” by U[lrich] E[nglehardt] Fries, 2nd printing published 1951 by Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho. It’s one of my favorite books for quotations… Continue reading
Salmon for fun
Just for fun, check out this totally Chinook-related “fish slap” emoticon. (Is that character on the right Smiley Chinook?) Just for fun too, I enjoyed seeing a Northwest Native word used in local… Continue reading
Komox or Comox, and “dog”?
Sometimes people familiar with Vancouver Island, BC, wonder if the name “Comox” is a spelling of Chinook Jargon’s word for “dog”. Comox is a town on the north-central coast of the island. This… Continue reading
Leon Fouquet OMI 1831-1912
Some useful information on this French missionary from Thomas Anthony Lascelles’ 1986 Simon Fraser University MA thesis, “Leon Fouquet and the Kootenay Indians, 1874-1887” (download it): Page 10 — In 1859, based in… Continue reading
Bilingual because it’s Canadian
Somebody offered me some bars of motel soap. I didn’t really need anything like that, but wouldn’t you know this was right on top: Antique or what? Is this hoary old design still… Continue reading
You can download my dissertation on Chinook Jargon
If you’re interested in Chinook Jargon, you can download the dissertation I just defended in the University of Victoria’s department of linguistics: “Kamloops Chinuk Wawa, Chinuk pipa, and the vitality of pidgins“ It’s… Continue reading
Coming soon: a Chinook shorthand font?
This document is technical and over my head… Proposal to include Duployan script and Shorthand Format Controls in Unicode/ISO-10646 file:///C|/Users/vanisaac/Desktop/WG2_Duployan/WG2Duployan.html[2010-09-29 23:59:37] Document # N3895r Title: Proposal to include Duployan script and Shorthand Format… Continue reading
Reading fresh messages in old letters at fort
Reading fresh messages in old letters at fort Program illustrates vital link between literacy and local history ‘[A] program at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site was the first time the link between literacy and local… Continue reading
Ranch tales: The origin of the Chinook language
Ranch tales: The origin of the Chinook language By Ken Mather – Vernon Morning Star Published: July 22, 2011 1:00 AM ‘Early B.C. cowboys were allegedly masters of three languages, English, Chinook and profane… As one… Continue reading