<DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV>Klahawya Isaac !</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I apologize for this late reply, I had some free days and didn't touch the computer, even for checking e-mail.</DIV> <DIV>Me too I prefer Jim Holton's orthography (the reasons are obvious), and used it in my three previous translations in Chinook Wawa.</DIV> <DIV>This time, for the Djoha story I used something looking more like Grand Ronde orthography, in order to look more like Native-spoken Chinook Wawa. I also lack teaching materials for Grand Ronde Chinook Wawa, and used as a model for Native-spoken Chinook Wawa the "Texts in Chinook Jargon" of Melville Jacobs (<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><EM><A
href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmldoc.exe?CISOROOT=/lctext&CISOPTR=1584">http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmldoc.exe?CISOROOT=/lctext&CISOPTR=1584</A></EM></SPAN>).</DIV> <DIV>Regarding your translation, I also am not an expert, but I would prefer (using Holton's orthography) the following formulation:</DIV> <DIV>Pus atlki mêsayka mitlayt yakwa, klush mêsayka chaku kêmtêks nêsayka lalang.</DIV> <DIV>(I don't pretend that it is better than yours; it is just how I would say it)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Atlki wekt,</DIV> <DIV>Francisc<BR><BR><BR><B><I>"Isaac M. Davis" <isaacmacdonalddavis@GMAIL.COM></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>That's very interesting, Francisc. I myself have only translated one piece of text; there was a post in a linguistics-related forum, asking how one would, in indigenous North American languages, say, "If you're
going to live here, learn the language." </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My (admittedly inexpert) translation:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Msaika mitlait yakwa, klosh pus msaika chaku kêmtêks nsaika lalang.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(I use Jim Holton's orthography; I don't have any teaching materials for learning the Grand Ronde one, and his makes more sense to me than the older, anglicised orthographies.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Klahawya,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Isaac M. Davis<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p>
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