Posted by marcos on July 18, 2002 at 19:09:58:
In Reply to: moe on Nunavut and 'isuma'... posted by giveawayboy on July 17, 2002 at 17:53:14:
: No matter what others say I for one applaud any group of people that will champion their native language and not just sell out to English.
~Yeah, as always there's a struggle with the surrounding dominant language. I mean this kind of
thing happens in many places, especially when it comes to English, but with others too.
: As far as the 'isuma' concept goes, it is awesome! According Nunavut's official website, "in traditional Inuit culture, each speaker is allowed his or her own isuma. Others won't interrupt until a speaker indicates that they've said all they needed to. There is no time limit: a speaker can sit in silence for quite a while, yet no one will speak until he or she ends with pijariiqpunga. It means that they're finished, and someone else can have a turn to speak. Can you imagine how much we could improve our communications if we all knew how to say the word pijariiqpunga?
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~Yeah, I read about this, I think I would fit well into that kind of a concept, I could easily
get used to it, I would like it.