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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon September 13, 2 0 0 7 Page 13 THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE LESSON Final Foods & Ending the Season Pa iute W asq'u Sahaptin Numu natukana Final foods Tiyam ku Shatampama tkwata, tFaaxwq’a wiyak’uk’ut anwichtash. Ha oo mu e pubu’a, e nanumu? Fall and Summer foods that are ending and we are preparing for the Winter. How are you, my friends and relatives? Tatza moasoo kadoo’oo managa’a. Our summer months are almost gone. TFaaxw tanan itmaanisha wiwnuna anwichtash. i+gwamax aga ¡taskutc’. , Days are getting shorter. Saqw aga idmibdem andutga. All the food that you gathered is All people are picking Huckleberries at this time of put away. the year for the Winter. Kushxi pailaxauwisha ku patwashasha nusux. Ka taba egase na’utsutsu. When the sun goes down it gets cold. Chawibut, ukwashaqwt, duchxumix itbdern. Frozen, dried, canned foods. And also last of the A ga afgiuldamida: year salmon are being Now let's all pray: caught and people are drying, canning, and so on. Togapono’a moasoo natsapoka. It's time to pick huckleber ries. 'X ’** O ’ Shaxei Ishtamx, Asm q’a ¿tiyatsha ilaxiyauwish. O 'G od And also people are drying eels. U ha numuno tutsapoka? It’ukdi maika Did you go pick huckleberries? You are good Ahaa! Dauda it’ukdi itbdern Yes! This good food 0 pesa u manakwe! Hope you had fun! Ku chau ata tun tmsh ckikuuk. And there are hardly any chokecherries. Ki ha’noyo tooesapooe mana na’a. TFaaxw patkwata kakyaiin, ku xiyauniin ticham iwa. There are hardly any chokecher- ries. The birds ate the chokecher ries and the land is too dry. Uka no’oko Numu tatsukana matzopase te’a ... Mendenchlut kiwaba enshaika amdenshluda kanawa You have given us, in your name It’ukdikiwaba imixan, Jesus Christ And give all good things to us for the sake of Jesus Christ ikushnam ksks t ’tauwaxt tananma wiyanishta tkwatat anwichtash. If you gathered foods and pre served them ... ... Ya tomo u pesa tukakwe. ... You will eat well this winter. Amen This is the way to preserve food for the Winter. Au ai tFaaxw! li au! Mow pesa mu, saa mu poonedooa. Take care and well see you later. Want another reason to get away from English? Take a look at this editorial piece! http://www.jimpoz.com/jokes Let’s face it. English is a crazy lan guage. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pine apple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweet meats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isnt the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two m eese? One index, two indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue? Sometimes I think all the English speak ers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on drive ways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gow n? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this es say, I end it. Reminds me of the oxymorons. Jumbo shrimp, honest crook... - credited to Dave Wisneski