Rory's Mysterious Omaha-Ponca Fragment

[Mark-Awakuni Swetland]

I will encourage wagaxthoN Rory to enhance his statement in various ways...
"here are my 2 two cents", "I'm giving you my two cents", "take my two
cents", etc.

Around here we are trying to reverse the situation that native Omaha
speakers tend to use the English terms for such things. We are in the fourth
week of Omaha I, using the immersion approach. The first day I lasted 6
minutes. We are now averaging 40 minutes daily. The differences in
performance and competence are noticeable.

wagoNze Uthixide

----- Original Message -----
From: "Koontz John E" <John.Koontz at COLORADO.EDU>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: Rory's Mysterious Omaha-Ponca Fragment


> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Rory M Larson wrote:
> > We'dhawaz^ide noN'ba wiwi'tta tHe.
>   cent(?)       two    mine     the
>
> Partly a guess on my part, but a safe one, knowing Rory, because I think
> Rory must be one of the few people alive who knows the words for the
> coinage, given his research topic.  I think all the native Omaha speakers
> use English terms for such things!
>
>