Salutations

[Dave Robertson]

I reckon the following might reflect the way people actually said goodbye 
in the interior BC Jargon-speaking world:

"TLUS, TLUS, TLUS, KANAWI TILIKOM.
KLAHAWIAM, KLAHAWIAM, KLAHAWIAM, KANAWI TILIKOM."

That's "Very well, very well, very well, everyone.  Goodbye, goodbye, 
goodbye, everyone."

It's from an 1894 letter.

A really interesting thing about people who've just learned to write is 
that they usually write the way they talk.  (This is a common finding in 
studies I've read, anyway.)

So these Jargon letters are quite a window on the writers' world.

--Dave R

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