re "Native speakers of the pidgin"

[Dave Robertson]

Hello, all,

Please let me make a very brief comment in praise of our list members' acuity:

Sally Thomason <thomason at UMICH.EDU> wrote:
> a consistent CJ phonology across Native
> speakers of the pidgin

I would like to thank you, Sally, for capitalizing "Native" in this instance, where of course it's essentially a synonym for "indigenous".

I also would like to thank our list members for understanding the distinction between this capitalized usage and the noncapitalized one, where "native" is another way of labeling a "mother tongue".

A small but crucially important distinction, in the case of Chinook Jargon!

Dave
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