Rory's Mysterious Omaha-Ponca Fragment

[Rory M Larson]

WagoN'oNze U'dhixide wrote:
> 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.

Aho.
  "here are my 2 two cents"       Dua'tHE we'dhawaz^ide noNba' wiwi'tta
tHE.
  "I'm giving you my two cents"   We'dhawaz^ide noNba' wiwi'tta tHE wi?i'.
  "take my two cents"             We'dhawaz^ide noNba' wiwi'tta tHE dhiza'
i ga ho!

But I really just wanted to say "My two cents"!

(I'm not sure about the accent on noNba.  That seems to have been changed
on
me recently, with indications from a speaker that it was conditional on
something
we haven't defined yet.)


> 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.

And I would like to extend kudos to U'dhixide in this forum.  It is still
early in the semester, but we have been muddling along with trying to
actually speak the language in class almost all the time, and the results
are very promising.  I'm really impressed with his new-found ability to
keep the class going and even explain what we are doing in Omaha.  His
hosting of a cookout for the class this past Sunday, in which he and the
speakers taught us how to make cowboy bread as a lab-- in Omaha-- was a
high point of the semester.  At the rate the students are learning, they
should be pretty competent speakers before the course is over.  Hopefully,
Mark and I will be able to keep up with them!

U'dhixide, u'udoN s^ka'g^e.  Was^koN' ga ho!

Rory