Troubled waters under a bridge

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Thanks, George, for a thoughtful suggestion, which I will pass along.
I had presumed there were likely concise expressions in Native
language analogous to the "water under the bridge" sentiment, but
needed help finding or reconstructing something similar in Jargon.

I reflected on the irony of naming subdivisions with Native/Jargon
names (I lived in one myself once--"Illahee Firs" on the Peninsula),
but I think it better in the balance to see local history
memorialized.

Regards,

Jeff

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:56:19 -0400, "George Lang"
<george.lang at UALBERTA.CA> wrote:

>For "water under the bridge" or "by-gone things we can do nothing about"
>why not "Lhush khakwa" 'good thus'?
>
>Per Mike's suggestion that we shouldn't just go around making things up,
>unless exceptional bouts of inspiration strike, this idiom is in the Grand
>Ronde vocabulary in the version I have from Henry Zenk, with annotation as
>follows:
>
>Lhush khawka / Lhush-khakwa. 1) Nevermind, let it go, 2) It's alright, it's
>good.
>
>Of course there is a whole philosophy implicit how we accept or refuse the
>course or flow of events, but I don't think I'll go there tonight....