disagreeing or flaming?

[Nadja Adolf]

-----Original Message-----
From: peter webster [mailto:peterweb at TELEPORT.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 4:07 AM
To: CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
Subject: Re: disagreeing or flaming?


Nayga wawa "màhsie, Nadja pi Tony!" Nayga sick tumtum kopa menaschie wawa.
--I want to say "thanks, Nadja and Tony!" I feel sick hearing bad words to
Nadja.

Nayga tumtum tenas man, kopa wawa cInuk! Wik-klus nayka wawa cInuk. Nayga
chako kumtux wawa cInuk. Nayga tumtum kwass.
--I feel like a little boy, when I talk chinook. I don't talk good chinook.
I am learning to speak chinook. I feel fear.

LaXam Peter pi Tony pi Mesayka!

Mayka kahkwa nayka tEmtEm kwass kopa wawa CInuk. Nayka tEmtEm nesayka wawa,
wegt wawa,
pi wegt wawa, nesayka aLqi chaku wawa CInuk Lush.

(You and I alike feel fear when we talk Chinook. I think if we talk, and
talk again, and
talk again, later we will become good Chinook speakers.)

Nayka munk tzum piah papeh kopa aLqi wawa pi munk papeh CInuk Lush.

(I write email every day so later I will speak and read Chinook well.)