"ikta kata" in _Kamloops Wawa_

[Colin Bruce]

if ikta can mean...

   What
   Something
   I don't know what

does that mean ikta kata can mean...

   What's the problem
   A problem
   I don't know what the problem is

?????

Can I say

   Nayka tumtum klonas ikta kata yakwa
   I think there may be a problem here.





Jim Holton <jim at ADISOFT-INC.COM>@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG> on 19-09-2002
13:29:58

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Dave, doesn't "ikta-qhata" sort of indicate there's a problem?  I am
kind of interested in the translation of "wik kata" as "could not."  I
am more interesting in what people where doing speaking CJ in China.
 Maybe you could give us the background? Hayash masi, Jim



David D. Robertson wrote:

>This was kind of interesting to find in _Kamloops Wawa_.
>
>>>From a page titled "Besieged in Pekin by the Boxers [page] 83", we have
>
>"Alta nsaika drit skukum haws:  wik kata nsaika wiht komtaks ikta kata
kopa
>klahani."
>
>("Now ours was really a prison house:  We could no longer know what was
>going on outside.")
>
>If my interpretation of this sentence is appropriate, <ikta kata> here is
>the equivalent of the characteristic Grand Ronde Jargon /ikta qhata/
>meaning "what's up?".
>
>







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