Wawa got me through college.
Posted by Kerim Friedman at March 29, 2004 08:55 PMThe Wawa stores around here (U Penn) made me do a bit of a doubletake for some time when I first got here because to me wawa is the Chinook Jargon word "to speak, language, talk" and I didn't expect to see it so far from home.
Don't forget the Chinook loanwords in BC English.
The hiyah muck-a-muck from my dad's company trailered his boat down from Cultis Lake last summer and so we got to take his skookum boat out on the salt chuck.
As a kid I didn't know that sentence was unintelligible outside my province. I'm still proud of the vocabulary and I'll use it with outsiders.
Posted by Qov at March 29, 2004 11:27 PMUnintelligible outside of your province? Uhhh, I'm an Oregonian and it was perfectly intelligible to me.
Posted by ben at March 30, 2004 03:02 AMThis from the email newsletter of SSILA
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* 6th Chinook Jargon Workshop (Portland, May 14-16)
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From Jeffrey Kopp (jeffreykopp@att.net) 23 Mar 2004:
Native Americans, linguists and historians will meet from May 14th to
16th at the Native American Center at Portland State University in
Portland, Oregon for the Sixth Chinook Jargon Workshop. The Workshop
consists of language classes, discussion groups and presentations
designed to encourage the use and preservation of Chinook Jargon in
the Pacific Northwest.
Chinuk Wawa (the Native term) was a language that served as a powerful
communication tool in a variety of environments. Not just a "jargon,"
it was used as an important vehicle for artistic expression and cultural
transmission, and was the primary language of many Native Americans
along the northwest coast. This was especially true for the Grand Ronde
community of northern Oregon, where a revival of the language is under
way. Grand Ronde has a Chinuk Wawa immersion preschool and a university
sponsored adult education class.
Workshop details are available on the Web at:
http://www.adisoft-inc.com/lulu
or by contacting Jim Holton (510-483-3725).
A Chinook Jargon discussion group, moderated by SSILA member Dave
Robertson, is also available on the Web at:
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/chinook.html
Posted by joe tomei at March 30, 2004 06:49 AMHi, Henry Z., if you're out there!
Posted by zizka at March 30, 2004 04:02 PM