Anyone out here?

[Mike Cleven]

Nadja Adolf wrote:
>
> Is anyone out here? Or has everyone been scared away by what is
> starting to look like a "language war?"
>
> Mike, I chose the term "ahnkuttie" because the use of "high" and "low"
> often implies a "preferred, more socially valid" formal form of the
> language versus a lower, everyday conversational form of the language.
> In some cases, the "high" and "low" forms are even separate languages,
> as in France where French was the low form and Latin the high form during
> the Dark Ages. And "ahnkuttie" is a word in the jargon. In the future
> I will refer to generic vs. Grand Ronde if that is more comfortable for
> people.

Which is why I chose "skookum" vs "hyas"; avoiding "keewulee" altogether
(BTW keekwulee in my part of the country is pronunced quiggly....)


> Right now, it iooks like Jim and I are going to try and work with some
> buckskinners, once the fire season is over and the contact
> person gets back to us. Our contact person speaks jargon, "generic", not
> "GR", and has some fellow buckskinners who are interested
> in learning. From what I have been able to determine, they are interested
> in a class, maybe lessons, and if we can put something together we may
> be able to broaden the language base to include people who are likely to
> practice it at home with family and use it to develop fluency.

Yaka kloshe.

Mike