This week's CJ quiz

[terry glavin]

answers below questions. . .
-----Original Message-----
From: David Robertson <drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG>
To: CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU <CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU>
Date: 05 February 1999 23:17
Subject: This week's CJ quiz


>LaXiyEm!
>
>Laksta kEmtEks...
>
>1)  Apostolos Valerianos, Laksta yaka?
>    (Who was Apolostolos Valerianos?)

 "Juan de Fuca", yaka nem Apostolos Valerianos.

>
>2)  Pat Kanim, Snohomish tIlXam ya-tayi, yaka nim chaku khapa Chinuk?
>    (Is the name of Pat Kanim, Snohomish chief, from Chinook Jargon?)

 Kanim = Canim = Canoe, so probably yes.
>
>3)  Dave ya-nanich makwst-taLEm tEnEs-buk khapa uk Kuri-Ceq-Tawn
>    ya-buk-haws.  Qhanchi hayu Laska dret wawa, Washington IlI?i ya-hayash
>    wa "alki / aLqi", ya-chaku khapa Chinuk, pi wik "Sawash Wawa" yaka?
>    (Dave reads twenty pamphlets in the Spokane Public Library.  How many
>    of them tell the truth, that Washington State's motto "alki" comes
>    from Chinook Jargon, and not from "Indian"?
> (a) hilu ixt (none)
> (b) makwst (two)
> (c) kanawi Laska (all of them)
>
 Answer is probably "none."


>Lush hihi!  :-)
>Dave
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