<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="">Am 04.11.2007 um 19:49 schrieb Jonathan Holmes:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="">Could someone help me with an english translation to the following Lakota sentances?</DIV><DIV style=""> <STRONG style=""> </STRONG> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Another version - no great differences, but I needed the practise :</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><STRONG style="">taku kin lena mayakipazo ca iwanblake na wastelo ca pilamaye yelo.</STRONG></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"I've looked over (considered) these things you have shown me, and they're great, so I'm obliged to you." </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> (prob. : "pilamaYAye lo"(2pSg. Subj.), rather than "pilamaye lo"(3pSg. Subj) - unless latter was ikceya-woglakapi for former, with 'yelo' added as afterthought??)<BR><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><STRONG style=""> na wanna woiyunge wanji bluha, ehanni wicasa kin lena tonweyapi ewicakiyab. </STRONG></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"And now, I've got a question, (regarding/speaking of) these men who were called 'scouts', in the old days."</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><STRONG style="">taku isam wounspemiciciye wacin ca tuktel iwanblakin kte nains iyewaye owakihi hwo?</STRONG></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>"I want to learn some more, so where should I consider (looking), or where might I find it?" <BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><STRONG style="">taku kin lena wounspe wacin, wicasa kin lena toske inahmapi hwo? nahan ehan taku hayapi kin unpi hwo?</STRONG></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>"I'd like some information (lit. "instruction/lesson") on the following things : " </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> (Is "wounspe" in genitival relation with preceding "taku kin lena" : "instruction OF (on/about) these matters"?)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"How did these men practise concealment?"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"And what sort of clothes did they wear at the time?"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tuppence-ha'penny worth from the Land of the Big Dry!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Clive. <BR><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On 05/11/2007, at 7:43 AM, Alfred W. Tüting wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I appreciate what you have pointed out to me, it is good, thanks to you. Now I've one (more?) question: I'd like to learn more about those men whom they called "tonweyapi" (scouts, spys) in former times, and where can I look for it or find (smth.)? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(I'm not sure with the following): ?? What I want (a) lesson (of), how(??) did these men hide (keep secret) then (toksha?? = toske??)? 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