How do you say "it" in Jargon?

[Dave Robertson]

I published an article claiming the right way to say "it" in one kind of CJ
is... [pause] ... [that is, you say nothing].  

(Technical details left out, but linguists will see that I'm talking about
an inanimate 3rd-person null pronoun.)

I don't believe I've ever mentioned that another variety, from the Kamloops
area, has something really similar.  Now that we have access to chunks of CJ
longer than entries in a word list--I mean the full sentences and paragraphs
in the shorthand letters I've found--we can see examples of this.

I thought this was really a neat thing to learn.  Seems like all the
old-time books say that "it" in Jargon = "yaka".  What I've found is that
"yaka" normally means "her/him".  "It" = [...]

:-)

--Dave R

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