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Jimm, That was a fascinating & thoughtful response, & I enjoyed reading (& re-reading) it.<div>I have always found the problem of cross-cultural translation equivalents extremely interesting.<br><div>Thank you very much!</div><div>May this New Year bring blessings to you & your family.</div><div>Clive.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. I am determined to learn some more Omaha-Ponca, but I find it easier to learn (at least to read &, to some extent, to write a language) </div><div>by studying a text-book or reference grammar, in conjunction with texts, than by reading on-line. I guess I'm the old fashioned type, when it comes to language-learning. </div><div>But that UNL Web-site's great, I must admit!</div><div><br><div><div>On 10/01/2009, at 12:14 AM, Jimm GoodTracks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font color="#800080" size="4">Clive: Báñi Pi umáñi ho.</font></div><div>Wiyuškiŋyaŋ Omakȟa Tȟečha!/Happy New Year!</div><div><font color="#800080" size="4"></font> </div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">As the translation of dialectal, colloquial speech into another language equivalent of similar colloquial speech, I will have to pass. The conversation has a lot of cultural or better to say, particular group attitudes that just does not carry over into other cultures, albeit, humor is universal, but not everyone sees humor in the same light or in regard to the same subject areas.</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">Last year, (2008) I completed a full text translation of dialogs, conversations and subtitles of the documentary movie for a DVD auxiliary sound track "The Lost Nation: The Ioway." Within the more commonplace discussions of tribal members, anthropologists, archeologists, historians, etc., I came across a good many notions, concepts, views for which there was no equivalent Baxoje Jiwere term. In some cases, I was able to look at related languages (Winnebago, Lakota, Omaha, Osage) as to how they translated a word or concept. Bob helped me realize that there are and always will be some words which must be brought into the speaker language, which defy any kind of an adequate translation. </font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">One word</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">in particular was especially troublesome. The word "citizen" was used in a statement by one Ioway Elder. In reference to WWI, and the volunteer recruitment of Native soldiers, he said (not an exact quote): "A lot of those boys went over there, and they weren't even citizens". You can surmise in this statement, the term "citizen" has more than the typical significance for the Native People, in contrast to the typical country citizen. Without getting into much history, it took an earlier court ruling in the case of a Ponca ("Chief" another anglo invented word) for Natives Americans to be viewed as "human beings", and another 1920s court to declare that Native Americans to be "citizens" of the U.S. So the word has a unique view from the Native standpoint, which is usually lost on the general public.</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">From the Native view, when asked "What are you?" the reply is, at least among more traditional persons with cultural teachings (which is not the case for many younger generation, who edge towards not knowing "who/ what" they are) will have a reply: "I am Ponca ( or Ioway, Kiowa, Lakota, etc.), and then followed by "I'm Bear Clan (or whatever clan or sub group." Elders told that in the past, the Clans had sub groups, but that is well over a hundred years and more when such division were known. In trying to approach an equivalent for this term "citizen" from a Native perspective, I recalled all of this from the Ioway Otoe Elders, and confirmed the same with Mark who asked the following questions of fluent Omaha speakers. [Note: I do not have the exact Omaha words available at this writing, so I'll use the IOM words].</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4"></font> </div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">If you see someone who is not Native in appearance, What would you call them?</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">Ma^unke (white people); WashiThewe (black people).</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4"></font> </div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">And if these people in appearance, seem to be from some other country, other than the US, then how would you call them?</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">Ukihje (some other tribe).</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4"></font> </div><div><font color="#800080" size="4">The Ioway Elders shunned the mixing of English words into their speech, and frequently refused to translate such words or the sentence altogether. For example, in the sentence, "John went to town." The Otoe Elder refused, saying in English: "I cann't do that 'John'". When reworded to say: "White Horse went to town," the same Elder immediately responded, saying: "SúngeHga chína waré ke." Again, knowing this, I left the word citizen in the Baxoje Jiwere translation irregardless:</font></div><div><font color="#800080" size="4"></font> </div><div><font color="#800080" size="4"></font> </div><div><font color="#800080" size="4"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font color="#000000"><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>A lot of them guys went to war when they weren’t even citizens.</font><a title="" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><font color="#000000"><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>They weren’t citizens until June 1924.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">GC:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Éda ichi<sup>n</sup>doiñe<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>róha<sup>n</sup><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>wagídota<sup>n</sup>ñe<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>aráñena<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>“citizens”<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>híñe škúñinàšgu<sup>n</sup>.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Báñi 1924da<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Bí Xamóxra Šúwe aréna<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>“citizens” gašú<sup>n</sup><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>anáhehi ^ášgú<sup>n</sup>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font color="#000000">[</font><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">Literal:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>(<i>meaning unknown</i>):<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span> </span>Then<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>young-men<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>a-lot<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>them-against-war-they<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>go-they-and<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>citizens they-are<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>not- they- it-seems;<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Year<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>1924-during<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Month Flower Small<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>(<i>it</i>)-is- when<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>-citizens<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>now<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>they-allow-(<i>it</i>)-make<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>it-seems]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></font><div><font color="#800080" size="4"><br clear="all"><hr align="left" width="33%" size="1"></font><div id="ftn1"><font color="#800080" size="4"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><a title="" href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font color="#000000"><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Note:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>In as much as there is no known word for “citizen” in Báxoje, and no living fluent speakers to refer for a response, the question was put to fluent Omaha speakers, as to how they would say it.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Mark Awakuni Swetland replied in an Email on 6/3/08:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>“I visited with (Omaha)…speakers…about…citizen inquiry.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The two ladies were not familiar with a term in Omaha that corresponds to the concept of citizen in the legal sence…use(d)…today.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>They suggested (in Omaha) “people ~ person”, (and)…what “kind” of people/ person it was is… preceed… with… the ethnic identifiers available… Omaha person… White person.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span>The predisposition for self-identification is a mixed one.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Usually the tribal affiliation is first.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Some folks will identify their clan if they know it….<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>and… I have<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>rarely heard an Omaha person voluntarily state being an "American" unless in a venue where such rhetoric is expected (veteran activities usually).<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I have never heard an Omaha person categorically state that s/he was NOT an American (citizen).</span><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span>In suggesting the context of standing on a street corner and seeing two individuals approaching, one being obviously an "American citizen" and the other obviously from some other land, the speakers suggested the former would be a Wa'xe nia'shiNga<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>(White person) and the latter an ukki'tte -- other tribe/people.”<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Similar sentiments have been expressed by various late Ioway Elders.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>jgt.</span><o:p></o:p></font></span></p></font><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font color="#800080" size="4">Well now, Cleve, I know that all the above was not what you had in mind in your contributed writing on dialectic peer humor, but at least it is a responce for whatever value you have for it.</font></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font color="#800080" size="4">Jimm <br> </font></p></div></div></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(128, 0, 128); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="cbloom@ozemail.com.au" href="mailto:cbloom@ozemail.com.au">Clive Bloomfield</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU" href="mailto:siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU">SIOUAN LIST LIST</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:16 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re : A little (trilingual) fun!</div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; ">Happy New Year, all! :D</span></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">And now for a little party fun - with, (hopefully) at least some Siouan relevance (Lakota).</div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">No disrespect intended, naturally, just a little linguistic light-heartedness & entertainment over the "silly" season - after all, as they said in the classics, </div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">"Nemo omnibus horis sapit", (approx. "laughter is the most salubrious riposte to life's dirty left" [Veramente -traduttore traditore!]), am I right? ;)</div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Hey Anthony, how about a Geordie version? Bruce, what about a Scots, or maybe Cockney version? Dave, U.S. West Coast, or Biloxi? Omaha-Ponca version? </div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Jimm, Osage, Ioway, Kansa, Quapaw? Mandan, Hidatsa, Crow? Winnebago? Catawba, Oto, Tutelo? Rumsien Ohlone, Dave? Improved Lakota?</div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">DRAMATIS PERSONAE : </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">2 Aussie blokes, Chaz (Charlie), and "Bluey" his best mate (ubiquitous red-haired male personage; orig. Christian name irrevocably lost in mists of time); </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">1 fun-loving Aussie sheila Bluey's better half; (definitely a good-sport); </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">1 funster U.S. citizen, Marvin (indeterminate dialect); 1 party-loving Lakota.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">AETATES VITAE (Quot annos hi nati sunt? What ages?) : </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Young at heart .</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">LOCUS ACTIONIS : </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Somewhere "Down Under" : usually on the back patio, 'round the swimming-pool; (ankle-biters & grandkids long tucked-up in bed).</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">TEMPUS ANNI : Commonly mid-summer twilit late evening. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">TEMERATURA : vesperi magnopere aestuosa (hic enim saepe aestuat) - often abt. 96 to 110 degrees F.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Aussie : [=G'day blokes & sheilas! Geez, ripper party, fair dinkum!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">American : [=Hi, gang! Hot dog, this is one bad-aassss party - yessirrree!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Lakh^o'ta : [=Hau mita'kuye thechi'h^ilapi kiN! A'wichakh^eya, le' kichi'chopi kin li'lah^ciN wo'imag^ag^a s'ele'!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Aussie : [='Ay Chaz me ole china, pull your finger out, there's a good feller : just chuck another dingo on the barbie, willya son?]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">American : [=Hey there, Chuck ole buddy, get the lead out & toss another coyote on the B-B-Q there, woncha? Attaboy!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Lakh^o'ta : [=Ho' wo, Charlie kh^ola', akhe' shuNgma'nitu wanz^i' s^paN kta cha oche'thi kiN aka'N au'N wet^o'!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Aussie : [=No worries in the world, mate! Beauty-bottler, cobber!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">American : [=Sure thing, pal! Like, totally awesome, bro!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Lakh^o'ta : [=Oha'N chekpa'! ChiNto'k? Li'la chaNtéwas^teya echa'chicicuN kte, kh^ola', he' i'cat'a khili' kte tkh^a' ! </font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Aussie sheila : [=Crickey, sport, this 'ere's flamin' grouse tucker, eh, Bluey!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">American babe : [=Hey bigboy, this grub sure kicks ass, ain't that the truth!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Lakh^o'ta th^awi'chiNcala kiN : [=Ith^o', wicha'h^ca, le' wo'yute kiN paNh^ya' oyu'l was^te' la'h^cake le!</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Aussie : [='Struth Ruth, is it what, pet!!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">American : [=You better believe it, babydoll!!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Lakh^o'ta : [=WaN, winu'h^ca is^ta th^oth^o' , ta'ku ehe' kiN he'chetu kiN he' chet'u'Nwagla s^ni yelo'!!]</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">P.S. I hope my Lakhota is at least marginally better than my American dialects! I suspect not. ;)</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">_____________________________________________</font></div></blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>