Alaskan Jargon Survival...a most acute suggestion, Nadja!

[Dave Robertson]

LhaXayEm!

Na tiki wawa "lhush ma tEmtEm, Nadja".  I want to compliment your thinking there.  Pi alta lhaksta lhush kEmtEks uk khamuksh-kuri ikta?  Now who knows dog racing really well?  Pus lhaska wawa lhas khamuksh pus "mash", alta alaxti wEXt lhaska wawa "ayaq", wikna?  If those folks tell their dogs to "mush", then maybe they do also say "hyak", huh?  Dret lhush pus chakwa kEmtEks uk...It'd be good to find out about this.

Dave

Nadja Adolf <nadja at NODE.COM> wrote:
>
> In Brian Patrick O'Donoghue's book about his experiences racing in the
> 1991 Iditarod, he lists the commands given to sled dogs - Gee, Haw,
> and "Hike,hike,hike" - the latter term he suggests means to go.
>
> I wonder if this "hike,hike,hike" is actually "ayaq,ayaq,ayaq" or "hayak,
> hayak,hayak?"
>
> Gee means to turn a team right, and Haw turns them left - as in a team of
> horses; but the use of "hike,hike,hike" isn't of equine or ox team origin
> from what I can tell.
>
> nadja
> :wq
>

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