<tt><font size=2>David wrote:</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Jimm, let's be very cautious about linguistic
details here. At least in <br>
> Lakota, and I assume for the other languages as well, ska 'white'
is a <br>
> very different word from s^kaN. ...</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>As Bryan indicated, he and I are responsible for the
confusion here, and Jimm was cautioning us in the same vein as David. I
think we are all agreed that ska 'white' and s^kaN 'movement' are very
different words. Bryan and I were discussing the question of whether
what seems to be -ska in some less well-understood compounds could in fact
be a misunderstanding of some other morpheme, possibly related to s^kaN.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Part of the confusion may be due to our lazy habit
of including the entire preceding conversation in our replies. In
this thread, I've seen a paragraph I wrote commented on by Bryan, whose
message was then replied to by another poster whose system removed Bryan's
formatting and made my paragraph that he was replying to appear to be a
part of his message, which then agglutinated with many more. When
John Koontz was active, he used to scold us frequently for this practice.
It uses up server space unnecessarily, and it puts the same text
into the Siouan Archives again and again and again for word searches to
pull up equally many times. In posting, we should all try to pull
out only the quotes we are actually replying to, and remove the rest. (I
sometimes forget to do this too.)</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Cheers,</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Rory</font></tt>
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