This week's CJ quiz (fwd): K!Ilapay-wawa khapa uk #Lun

[David Robertson]

Klahowya.  Weght ikt nika mahsh-elip kopa mesika.  ...........Dave

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 08:04:06 -0800
From: Jim Holton <jim at adisoft-inc.com>
To: David Robertson <drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG>
Subject: Re: This week's CJ quiz

Nayka kilEpay wawa: B


David Robertson wrote:
>
> LaXiyEm!
>
> Laksta kEmtEks...
>
> 1)  Apostolos Valerianos, Laksta yaka?
>     (Who was Apolostolos Valerianos?)
>
> 2)  Pat Kanim, Snohomish tIlXam ya-tayi, yaka nim chaku khapa Chinuk?
>     (Is the name of Pat Kanim, Snohomish chief, from Chinook Jargon?)
>
> 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)
>
> Lush hihi!  :-)
> Dave
>
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