alaxti vs. tL!unas [Re: wawa question]

[Linda Fink]

Mahsie, Dave! Hlus miga wawa. Alaxti niga kumdux.

At 12:34 AM 9/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>lhaXayEm!
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>(I'm toying with typing <lh> rather than <L> for the voiceless lateral
>fricative...are you lost yet?)  :-)

Niga tumtum lh monika kagwa. Hlush tumtum! Klonas Tony wek tumtum kagwa
I think lh (is closer to the sound.) (Better like that) Good idea! (Wonder
if Tony will agree?)

lhaXayEm... Linda
which brings me to another question. Is this lhaXayEm in closing a modern
invention? All I think I heard said in class was something like "Ulda niga
hlatowa." Now I go. I think I was told that saying goodbye was bad luck so
people just left. But my memory and my understanding are neither one very good.
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>Linda, na tEmtEm lhush ukuk, pus ma wawa: (it seems good to me that you
>ask:)
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>On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Linda Fink wrote:
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>> When does one use "alaxti" and when "klonas"?
>>
>> Dave said:
>> alaxti nEsayka lIst tIlIxam Las tIki makuk Laska!
>> Maybe our list people would like to buy them!
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>...pi yEkwa na ha'yu tlay munk mayka kEmtEks (...and here I'll try to
>explain it to you)...
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>tIlIXEm lhas wawa "alaxti" pus "maybe", pus lhas tEmtEm "nawitka ukuk
>kakwa".  People say "alaxti" for "maybe" when they're thinking "surely
>this is the case".
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>lhaska wawa "tl!unEs" pus "maybe", pus lhas tEmtEm "dreht wik na kEmtEks
>pus ukuk kakwa".  They say "tl!unEs" (klonass) for "maybe" when they think
>"I really don't know if this is so".
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>kakwa na tEmtEm; alaxti ukuk dreht kakwa!  That's what I think; maybe it's
>really this way!  :-)
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>Best,
>Dave
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