[Algonquiana] Interesting website!

[Christopher Miller]

I have some suspicions about who this might be, namely someone who occasionally posts detailed, linguistically sophisticated information about Ojibwe in a couple of language-related groups on Facebook. I just fired him off a message to ask if it might be him; will see what the answer is. 

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> On Mar 20, 2019, at 3:49 PM, Richard RHODES <rrhodes at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> No idea. But in his/her about s/he says:
> 
> Ninchimookomaaniw, gaawiin nindanishinaabewisiin, dash ninanda-gikendaan
> i’iw ojibwemowin. Ambegish gaawiin gegoo wanibii’iganziwaan!
> 
> I'm a white American, not an Indian, and I'm learning Ojibwe. I hope I
> don't write anything wrong. (which is morphologically wrong: it should be
> wanibii'anziwaan, or maybe wanibii'igesiwaan, but I don't know how those
> antipassives work with quantifiers in SWO).
> 
> (Also the title of the blog means  Really.)   The dialect seems to be
> Southwest Ojibwe, but modern speakers shorten the nin(d)- prefix to in(d)-,
> so s/he's probably not doing fieldwork.
> 
> FWIW
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:09 AM MONICA MACAULAY <mmacaula at wisc.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> 
>> Here's an interesting website/blog:
>> https://miidashgeget.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/algonquian-evolution-1-proto-algonquian/.
>> Does anyone know whose it is?
>> 
>> 
>> - Monica
>> 
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