Pronunciation Lessons Required

15 Replies to “Pronunciation Lessons Required”

1. I’m still lost in the concept of making up these strangely accented letters and words to describe something belonging to a stone age primitive group with no written language. The odds that someone living today is pronouncing the word remotely closely to how their great-great-great-great-great grandma did are less than zero

   1. I’d like to know how many distinctly different indigenous languages there were in Canada, not to mention distinctly different tribes? – when the white man arrived. Are Canadians to be forced to learn ALL those distinctly different languages and their newly invented over-punctuated alphabets?

      Hundreds? Thousands?

      Were indigenous peoples the most anti-social fragmented societies to ever exist on the planet? And now it appears as though your Canadian government is bent on recreating that anti-social impulse. To DIVIDE the people … not unify them.

2. to that all l have to add is dhhteimndklxlzjdjdovlzmzjwiqj

   1. So that dhhteimndklxlzjdjdovlzmzjwiqj is the real name for Canada in Blackfoot – who knew?

      The Blackfeet’s million year ancestral home in Montana, BC and Alberta……………blah, blah, blah

      From Wikipedia:
      “They (The Blackfeet) had migrated onto the Great Plains (where they followed bison herds and cultivated berries and edible roots) from the area of now eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.” So, New England and Labrador.

      Oh well, maybe it’s the 300 year old ancestral home in MT, AB, and BC or roughly 100 years after my ancestors landed in New England.

      The Black Hills of South Dakota/Wyoming have had in succession, the following Stone Age peoples: The Clovis, Arikara, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, Arapahoe and finally The Lakota Sioux. The name Black Hills in Sioux is Paha Sapa. OK, that’s swell but what did the Kiowa call it?????

      1. I don’t think the proto-Blackfoot came from the East, I think they came up the Missouri from the Gulf coast. It’s the Cree that come from Turtle Island (ie, the Appalachians) and have only been on the Great Plains for 300 years. The Blackfoot have been here for 3,000 years.

      2. Don’t forget, the Cree who came out west with the fur trappers tried to wipe out the Blackfoot.
         Now, back to speaking aboriginal, I mean clearing my throat.

         1. Yes, the Blackfoot and the Cree were deadly enemies. They still talk about the Battle of the Old Wives and the Battle of the Seven Persons. They try to play down the fact that the Cree took the occasion of the Northwest Rebellion, not to assist their kin against the Canadians or even the Canadians against rebels, but just to take another kick at the Blackfoot, more or less for the hell of it. These days they try to regard all that as long settled, and I suppose it is, unless somebody digs it up again.

3. A guide to beginning the process of actually educating your children in BC:

   https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/support/classroom-alternatives/homeschooling

   1. From BC’s helpful website you sited:

      “Public schools receive $250 for each registered homeschooled child”

      For what?

      1. It’s a “thanks for nothing”
         The parents don’t get anything per se, and the kids miss world trans day etc… and the rest of it.
         I find at this point the sarcasm is starting to misfire, and I’ve got nothing to add to this.

4. Tyranny of the minority; or perhaps the moronity.

5. Another strong WiFi password. Just give the whole damn province over to the first nations and be done with it.

   1. Is that a strong password, or a muskrat loose on the laptop keyboard?

6. Welcome to Glottally Stopped Junior High!

7. Hypocrites.
   The damage that the use of all that excess ink will do to the environment is intolerable to any responsible tribe.