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

[Dave Robertson]

It's in Duployan shorthand, thus murderously difficult to read even once you magnify it!

Dave


Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM> wrote:

>"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
>
--
"Asking a linguist how many languages she knows is like asking a doctor how many diseases he has!" -- anonymous



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