tinas kaltis wawa kupa mamuk hiyu haha

[Scott E. Tyler]

anah!

yakwa nayka tilikam
yawa mayka kakwa smok stachin
Here I stand as a man,
there you are a smoked sturgeon!

hilu mayka mamuk kaltis wawa
qiwa elqay nayka chakkin mayka komaks papa
Don't make kaltis wawa because I'll kick your doggy papa

oqoq mayka wik' lateyt
kakwa wapato kupa lasi'eyt
That's you with no lateyt like a potato on a plate

nanich kupa shilaykam pi mayka nanich peltan-man
Look in the mirror and you'll see an insane man

alta chaku colo upuch-man
pi tinas lili mayka tlap ikt kalitan
Now get lost you opooch-man
or in a little bit you'll catch a kalitan (arrow)

hayak sopina inapu
spus na ledu mamuk memlus
quickly jump inapu (flea) or I'll end your life with my ledu (finger)

oq mayka
siya kuli glis kwishu
qiwa chaku ko hayas olo lelu oqoq
run away you greasy kwishu (pig)
because a hungry lelu (wolf) is here

ma mamuk ipsut mayka lapush
alta skukam wawa tayi chaku yaka 'owas
hold your tongue 'cause the King of bad talk is home!

alta maxsh lhadwa tinas man
spus nayka kwahl mayka kakwa melakwa
Out of the way now tiny guy!
I'll swat you like a little fly! (mosquito).

tlush nanich tlush nanich
spus hlaska lalang kakwa opica
hladawa tla  hladwa siya
pi mihlayt win' kwansim

Beware Beware
of those with tongues like knives
Run clear! Run away!
And keep your life!

kopet kopet nayka siks
wik' mamuk kaltis wawa
yaka mamuk pahl ana
kikwili kikwili nayka ta!
so my friend
make no harsh wawa
it make much pain
deep down in my ta!

scott/ushtaqi


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Cleven [SMTP:ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 15, 2000 1:57 AM
> To:	CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject:	Creative Chinook Invective: Kahkwa Mesachie Wawa (kahkwa
> heehee)
>
> David Lewis wrote:
>
> >
> > 226- "kamuks" translated as 'bastard' , this word has remarkable
> > similarities to mamook. Does anyone have a theory on this one?
>
> I wrote some of the following while composing my other "kamuks/comox"
> reply, and came up with some entertainment value.  Everyone polish up
> your tzum sticks and your heehee laboosh, as well as some peshak tumtum,
> and let mamook pooh!  OK, people, let's have some FUN.....
>
> "maika mama hyas klootchman moolack" (your mother is a big cow elk)
> might be effective.  But maybe that's not an insult, depending on your
> culture, I suppose.
>
> "Cultus pelton" is pretty harsh, I think, but it really means only
> something like "crazy fool"; but it seems an insult to dignity, as it
> slights both someone's worth and their intelligence; culturally pretty
> bad, from any background, if the meaning is known to the hearer.
> Dunderheadish qualities could be "wapato latet" or just "kahkwa
> wapato"?  What's worse than a wapato?
>
> Tukamonuk [la] nose - hundred noses.  Somebody who's nosey, maybe.
>
> back to more serious derision: "Hoolhool wootlat", maybe (this list is
> G-rated, so please refer to your lexicons ;-).  "[maika] Moolack
> wootlat" or "[maika] kiuatan wootlat" seem far too generous.....
>
> Then there's "stone latet" (which kinda could also mean d******d,
> although somewhat anatomically different); sounds a bit tougher than
> "wootlat latet", dunnit?
>
> "Tenas Opoots"...."Hyas Opoots".  Again a cultural issue, maybe, and
> maybe both would work.  Is this a kloshe ikta, or a cultus ikta?
> "Lemolo Opoots" sounds maybe more like an affliction than an
> insult........"tamanass opoots" would be, possibly, more like a
> compliment, as in "man! he/she's _bad_".......
>
> Kloshe konaway mamook elip heehee.......
>
> Naika moosum; okook sun naika chako kilapi kopa Lillooet; elip hiyu
> miles kopa klahwayhut.......
>
> OK, OK, someone come up with a Chinookism for "miles".....there's that
> distance/measures issue again....
>
> Mike Cleven
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