<DIV>LaXayam Ooshtaqi,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you very much for the appreciation.</DIV> <DIV>Indeed, in this texts the most difficult thing for me to translate in Wawa was "wedding party"; I used "hayash makmak" only because I thought that "big eating" applies to a party in general (including wedding party). Maybe you're right, paLach would be more appropriate.</DIV> <DIV>I used in my translation "hilu latet" for "idiot" and "kaltas man" for "bastard" because it was the most suitable that I could imagine, even if (in my oppinion) not so expressive like the English expressions. "Masachi man", as far as I know, is used in Wawa with the meaning "enemy". "Tumtum kakwa mowitch" in my oppinion could be an insult or a praise, depending on what animal do you understand by "mowitch" (it usually means deer, but as I understood, in some contexts could refer also to other animals; "tenas mowitch" is "rabbit" or "rat" or any other small animal; "masatche mowitch" is
"wolf" or "grizzly bear").</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>ALki weXt,</DIV> <DIV>Mayka siks</DIV> <DIV>Francisc</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Scott Tyler <s.tylermd@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>LaXayam Las,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mayka tenes yiem yaka paL hihi!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>your little tale is pretty funny!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>wedding party could = paaLaC or potlatch</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hiloo lateyt, kaltus man, mesaachee man</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tumtum
kakwa mowitch </FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>= pretty good insults</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>scott/ooshtaqi</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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