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TravelKetchikan
Publishedmon Aug 1, 2012
"Themlanguage is always evolving," says Haida language apprentice, Linda Schrack, "which means we have to coin new words for things that our ancestors didn't have." A few years ago, one of Schrack's language mentors, Erma Lawrence, made up a word for computer: gudáay gín 'wáadluwaan an únsad, which, literally translated means "the box that knows everything."
TravelKetchikan
Publishedmon Aug 1, 2012
"Themlanguage is always evolving," says Haida language apprentice, Linda Schrack, "which means we have to coin new words for things that our ancestors didn't have." A few years ago, one of Schrack's language mentors, Erma Lawrence, made up a word for computer: gudáay gín 'wáadluwaan an únsad, which, literally translated means "the box that knows everything."
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