kakupus-kakwa

[Tony Johnson]

LaXayEm nayka shiks.  ntsayka wawa "kakupus" pus bastEn "as if" /
"seemingly."  q'wet'L-wawa ukuk.  pus munk uk q'wet'L-wawa ntsayka
anqati tilixam Laska munk-khanamakwst makwst tEnEs-wawa "kakwa" pi
"pus."  

qhanchi ntsayka wawa "kakupus-kakwa" ntsayka wawa (khapa bastEn) "this
is the way something appears" / "that's the way it seems."  

Pus mayka wawa "khanawi ikta Lush?" khapa nayka.  alaxti nayka k'ilapay
wawa mayka, "kakupus kakwa."  

Laksta tiki munk-huyhuy ukuk khapa bastEn wawa?

ayaq nayka munk-tsEm alta pi alaxti wik khanawi-ikta drEt.

Naschio (Tony A. Johnson)
Shawash-ili7i (Grand Ronde, OR)


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:38 AM
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Subject: kakupus-kakwa

There's an expression right at the beginning of the Ntsayka Ikanim page
on 
the Grand Ronde website:  kakupus-kakwa.  I've never seen the word 
kakupus.  It seems to have something to do with virtually but maybe 
someone could tell me exactly what it means.  

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