the Lenape language

[George Thompson]

The opening paragraph of a review posted today to the NYHist list.  I will forward the full, very detailed review to those interested.

A Philological Review of NATIVE NEW YORKERS: THE LEGACY OF THE ALGONQUIN PEOPLE OF NEW YORK, by Evan T. Pritchard, Council Oak Books, San Francisco and Tulsa, 2002.

  Has there ever been a language subjected to so much abuse by pretentious dabblers, as the Lenape language? From Rafinesque's WALAM OLUM (and all its modern-day "translators") to Wenning's HANDBOOK OF THE DELAWARE INDIAN LANGUAGE, charlatans and dilettanti of every kind have had their goes at duping the general public (and sometimes academia!) by their linguistic legerdemain?often with surprising success. Evan T. Pritchard, Professor of Native American Studies at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, has now given us another work in this genre?perhaps the worst yet.

The reviewer identifies himself as Raymond Whritenour, LENAPE TEXTS & STUDIES

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

"We have seen the best of our time.  Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves."  King Lear, Act 1, scene 2 (Gloucester speaking).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:08 pm
Subject: breastaurant

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>
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>
> A Yahoo search shows the term in the context of women who breast
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>