Hiya!

[Scott Tyler]

Both phrases,
"hey!, long time no see" and "long time no hear" were used in a genuinely 
used in two Native communities where I grew up.
Other phrases, "dog gone" and "whose dog died" where jokes for us.
scott/ooshtaqi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leanne Riding" <riding at TIMETEMPLE.COM>
To: <CHINOOK at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Hiya!


> Very interesting!
> Say, does the phrase "long time no see" come from CPE?
> Also just curious...
>
> As for Hiya, I'm not sure... for some reason the image of disney's "goofy" 
> pops in my head. "Hiya mickey!" (Maybe he did not say that.) Wouldn't this 
> be related to "hi"?
>
> David Robertson wrote:
>
>>This is a bit off the topic of Jargon, but I'm reading up on Chinese 
>>Pidgin English because of the number of words in Kamloops Wawa that could 
>>come from it...
>>
>>I know we get a number of common English expressions from CPE, like "no 
>>can do" and "chop chop".
>>But does anyone know if we got "hiya" (meaning "hello") from CPE also? 
>>Various online sources say this is known from the 1940s onward, which 
>>could mean CPE is a less likely source.
>>Just curious,
>>
>>--Dave R
>>
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