Re:My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
by protomyth on Sunday November 19, 2017 @07:40PM
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I can read Dakotah ok, but I never could speak the language because I cannot really do the guttural without sounding idiotic. Had a boss who learned the language from her uncles, so she was teased by her aunts for "talking like a man". Reading is safer.
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Re:My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:53AM
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How so? That's interesting- how is speaking like a man or a woman different in Dakotah? Is it like in Japanese, where different first-person pronouns are used, or?
(er, not trying to make some political comment on gender roles etc, just genuinely interested to hear from a speaker. I guess I can just google it :)
Re:My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
by protomyth on Monday November 20, 2017 @07:46PM
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There are some word differences and tone. I'm pretty poor at the difference since I'm not really a speaker (that whole guttural problem). If you look up Lakota, its basically the same difference since they are pretty close language wise.
On a side note, it is a pain in the butt to search for Dakota as opposed to Lakota on Google because it keeps giving Lakota pages. What a pain.