FOUND: 'Over 5000 Chinook words equivalent to 7500 English'

[Mike Cleven]

"David D. Robertson" wrote:
>
> Our excellent fellow CHINOOK member Terry Glavin ends his essay "Damned
> Rascal, Son of a Bitch:  A Discussion" (I refer to page 54 of Charles
> Lillard & Terry Glavin, "A Voice Great Within Us [The Story of Chinook]"
> published in Vancouver by Transmontanus / New Star Books, 1998):
>
> "[Publisher of _Kamloops Wawa_, Father] Le Jeune mentions a 'miniature
> reproduction of 5,000 Chinook words, equal to 7,500 English words, all in a
> post-card size space 3 1/4 x 5 1/2".'  Its whereabouts are unknown."
>
> Sitting right under that Nativity story just posted to you all, there was a
> photocopy I'd made from materials Mike Cleven showed me in 1998:  "[Page]
> 165 / ST. CECILIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR / Over 5000 Chinook words equal to
> 7500 English words, in one page."  I haven't established which issue of
> _KW_ this appeared in.  The measurements of the page of text are actually 3
> 3/8 x 5 1/4".
>
> Found!

What's the Jargon in; if it's in the Roman alphabet it's a demonstration
that the Jargon needs fewer words than English to express the same
meaning/context, or is the CJ in Duployan, which no doubt can be written
much smaller?

MC