CHINOOK Digest - 23 Aug 2003 to 24 Aug 2003 (#2003-63)

[David D. Robertson]

Wow, last I heard, you'd quit CHINOOK in high dudgeon, Nadja.

I'm happy to hear you now.

About the Yahoo group, somehow I don't remember anyone submitting messages
about it to CHINOOK.  I do have memories of this or that party writing
flames that happened also to include threats to leave this list and launch
another one.

(None of them, as I remember, included the new list's email address.  I
also recall having searched a number of times in Google for the Yahoo
group you mention, since I was fairly interested in it.  I had no success.
You are making me realize it might be a good idea to keep a file of all
rejected postings to CHINOOK; among all the penis-enlargement and Nigerian
bank-account spam I could find the few Jargon-related rejectees.)

It's my longstanding policy as moderator not to approve flames.  My shame
is that this hasn't always been my policy, so that in the early days of
this list a number of negatives got posted on CHINOOK.




On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:30:35 -0700, Nadja Adolf <yakimabelle at YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

>> [Dave R. wrote:]  Maybe here I should repeat my own view that I don't
>> think anyone's
>> seriously promoted a standardized Chinook Jargon,
>> despite the frustration
>> some folks have experienced in trying to master the
>> imperfectly,
>
>It isn't a matter of "taking over" the Wawa. It is a
>matter that the GR dialect being promoted has NO
>materials available to those who are not either part
>of the language program or linguists or able to travel
>to the res.
>
>There is a conversation group on Yahoo that exists for
>the sole purpose of conversations in Chinook Jargon.
>Despite a number of attempts by more than one person
>to have that list's email address posted here, not one
>such message has been permitted on this list. Very
>ironic considering that this list is one of the listed
>resources over there.
>
>If one logs into the yahoo webpage for the
>Chinook-Wawa group, messages appear almost instantly
>if you press reload; or they can be received in email.
>
>The only requirement is that you either explain what
>you said or tell people what resource you are working
>from. That way others can learn from reading what is
>posted.
>
>I maintain the group although I am more involved in
>studying other languages at present due to lack of
>materials for the Jargon.
>
>Mar Habra,
>
>Nadja