Lika’s Log

I was reading a messageboard that doesn’t let me post because of technical difficulties I am to lazy to pursue. Besides one should refrain from going to way too many message boards because it can geek you out, you know. Between blogging and posting, thats a lot of time used up. Time that could be more readily used in the gym or something unhealthy like having dessert.

So I’m reading these threads so to speak and I think the topic was about “is using the word “breed” offensive.” Some people think nothing of it. Some find it insulting. Some people are just plain stick in the mud. Who frkng cares? Like any other WORD it is the context, its is the attitude, its the love and aloha, it is the hellish ugly you feel about it. It is not black or white, it is dang grey. Dingy grey. The human eye can distinguish 40 shades of gey. Is it gray or grey? The one thats the color, thats what I’m talking about. The special computer video imagery dillywackerwotever its called can distingquish 100 shades of gray. Now I do sound like a geek.

My girlfriend is half American NDN (thats my short cut for Inidian/less strokes, guys may not like it but hey I aint stroking you guyz *L*)/half haole. She grew up being teased a half breed. She’s proud to be a half breed and when other NDNs or anyone teases her a ‘half breed’; she tells them: “I’d rather be a HalfBreed then an INBreed!” Good comeback. Within small communities there are certain amount of that 1st cousin 1st cousin thing going on. People always seem to blame Kentucky or the Mormons.

In this cyberspace environment we choose to frequent; there is so much misinformation and flatout bullshit that people will swear by it is the Goshawful holy truth. So as individuals we have to research and educate ourselves. Me, I’m first to admit that I’m gullible. But sometimes bullshit really smells like bullshit and you are forced to investigate.

Case in point the post below:

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Re: The Word “Breed”
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Ok…so with remembering a past post, **** could have used T’salagi:

And no, I don’t speak T’salagi, I went and asked…and hopefully the friend I asked got all his dangeling participles tidied up…
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Like the person who did this post, I went and asked a FRIEND. A person who is a native speaker of Tsalagi, which translate into Cherokee. I am talking about someone who was born and raised speaking this language. I showed’um da post and asked him if it was right. He said ‘fkng white people.’

The words are written phoenetically and you have to know the vocabulary of the Cherokee syllabary to read Cherokee. Their are glottal stops and certain sounds that can not be written. So he struggled to read the words posted. He concluded this came out of a book and not a very good book. Similar to the first Cherokee English dictionary he read. The word they used for breast [and they showed a picture of a female with bodacious tata’s (not manongs)] was really the word used for ‘chicken breast’. Somebody did not do their homework.

So I was told by this person who speaks Cherokee there is no word for sex. The word his people uses would translate into “stick his dick in her”. And its more of a phrase not one word, and there’s difference on how a female would say it as oppose to a male, its not generic. Make sense! *L*

The Cherokee written in da post he said is not worth the time. What difference does it make, it only pisses off the people who are native speakers because they know the right and wrong of it. People will swear up and down that its right because it is written in a book. And who wrote the book, people believe books but they don’t believe the native speakers. So why should Natives waste their breath on rheteric.

“Aninequogv” the word for breed but is usually used to refer to folks who are ‘breeds’

My translater said it means Haole or Hapa; depends on how you say the first part of the word. It has nothing to do with what pigs do or maybe you have to define pig, I don’t know. I say it “YOE-neg” myself. My mother-in-law understands me. *L*

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