Access to Chinook Jargon materials (was...Re: Thanks Linda!)

[Colin Bruce]

To echo Nadja's cry for more online material and Jeff's for style
tollerance, I would love to see a group produce online synoptic paraphrases
of some famous modern texts.  Maybe there are people on this list who would
like to help?

The following is my paraphrase of a portions of some famous speaches.  I've
written my best Internet jargon (It's pretty lousy), built from online
dictionaries and books and reading the conversations of the chinook list.
I'm sure more experienced speakers would use much more poetry.

1. Will anyone pick it apart (as cruelly as you can if need be)?
2. And please, please, would someone who is familiar with another kind of
jargon offer their own paraphrase?

 I'd love to read this in GR style, Puget Sound style, Fraser Valley Style
(where I grew up), Northern BC and Alaska styles and any other style I
don't yet know of.  It would be a great way to learn.  I would organise
them and repost them in synoptic format if people wanted.

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I've chosen these quotes to have a world view rather than just a Pacific
Northwest view or an American view or a Canadian view.  I think they're
pretty well known and generally respected.  I hope noone is confronted by
any of the words.  Maybe maybe you will find them enjoyable puzzles.

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I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black
domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in
which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity. It
is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if need be, it is
an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
  --  Nelson Mandela

   Ancuttie, nika solleks t'kope tolo, pe nika solleks klale tolo. Nika
   tikegh okeoke kloshe tumtum ikta tillicum tolo pe stoh tillicum kah
   kanaway mitlite kanamoxt kwann pe kanamoxt kahkwa skookum.  Spose okeoke
   kloshe tumtum alahtie nika potlatch nika sun kopa okeoke illahie pe nika
   mamook chahko.  Kehchie, spose tikegh, alkie nika chahko memaloost spos
   okeoke kloshe tumtum. -- Nelson Mandella

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No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the
same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We
have the same basic human needs and is concerns. All of us human beings
want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and
as peoples. That is human nature.   --  Dalai Lama

   Hilo hayas ikta ka kapa illahie nesika chahko klah, nesika delate kahkwa
   kanaway tillikum, wik hayu haloyma.  Kanaway nesika klatawa nanitch
   kwann pe nanitch spose nesika mitlite wik sik.  Nesika tikegh pee nesika
   sik tumtum delate kahkwa haloyma tillikum, wik hayo haloyma.  Kanaway
   tillikum nesika tikegh nesika stoh pee skookum nesika mamok nesika
   wayhut kakwa ikt pee kanaway.  Kahkwa tillikum yaka tumtum.  -- Dalai
   Lama

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We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets,
We shall fight in the hills;
We shall never surrender,  --  Winston Churchill

   Nesika klatawa kapa kopit.
   Nesika katetah kapa Pasiooks Illahie, nesika akatetah kapa saltchuck pi
   hayas chuck,
   Nesika katetah pee nesika tumtum pee skookum kapa koosah chahko hayas
   Nesika katetah spose nesika aylan, kanaway makook,
   Nesika katetah kapa nawits, nesika katetah kah chahko kapa illahie,
   Nesika katetah kapa illahie pee kapa wayhut,
   Nesika katetah kapa lamoti
   Hilo kanji nesika chahko tolo, -- Winston Churchill

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When you came, we treated you well. What did you do in return? You stole
our land. You shared a little food with us. And you said you paid for it.
You killed off our buffalo for no useful purpose for you. We did not
destroy the buffalo. We know they are useful. Everything we needed came
from them. What will you destroy next?   --  Poundmaker

   Ancuttie kanji mesika chahko, nesika mamook kloshe kapa mesika.  Pee
   ikta mesika killapi?  Mesika kapswalla nesika illahie.  Mesika potlatch
   tanas muckmcuk spose nesika pee mesika wawa mesika makook spose okeoke.
   Mesika mamok memaloost nesika siwash moosmoos spos hilo kapa mesika.
   Hilo nesika mamok kakshut siwash moosmoos.  Nesika kumtaks klaska kloshe
   spose hayoo ikta.  Kanaway nesika tikegh chahko klah klaska.  Ikta
   mesika mamook kakshut tomalla?  -- Poundmaker

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that
day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words
of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! -- Martin Luther King

(some of the CJ words sound dangerously unkind to me in English but I'm
trusting in the information I've read that they are indeed neutral terms, I
certainly intend them that way)

   Kanji nesika mamook tintin okeoke stoh, kanji nesika mamook tintin kapa
   kanaway tawn pe kanawi tanas tawn, kapa kanaway illahie pee kanaway
   hayas smoke alta nesika skookum nesika mamok hyak okeoke sun kanji
   kanaway Sahalie Tyee yaka tanas, klale man pee t'kope man, Lejooip pee
   wik lejooip (I think I saw this in KW, if not it's CJified French),  Wik
   Katolik pee Katolik, kanaway skookum kanaway iskum lemah pee mamook
   shantie kapa Oleman Niggun Tamanhouse Shantie, "Stoh alta koppit!" --
   Martin Luther King