Last month, the Anishinaabe language lost one of its most gifted teachers, translators and champions; his friends are determined his work will go on. A piece from this weekend, in honour of Roger Roulette.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2022/12/10/a-labour-of-love-4
Roger Roulette spent a lifetime dedicated to understanding, analyzing and preserving his native Ojibwe language
It’s hard for Pat Ningewance to guess how many times it’s happened, that she’ll be working on a translation and find herself stuck. It’s never easy to translate between tongues, especially two as different as English and Ojibwe; so even Ningewance, a renowned University of Manitoba professor and translator, sometimes comes across a term that leaves her stumped.
@runsm0oth @krst It’s never been this dramatic for me, at all.
This is annoying because, I mean, we all love a good hate click on a bad Tweet once in awhile, but not if it risks being inundated by more of that same bad opinion for the rest of the day
Okay, something has definitely changed with Twitter’s algorithms. I clicked two ridiculous posts on separate topics (one was a person ranting about the new Harry and Meghan doc), and now I have about a dozen recommended Tweets at the top of my TL from people I don’t follow on the exact same outraged topics
@AlyssaWinnipeg I will remember? This friend is likely headed west soon as she got a good opportunity there, but I know a few other newcomers that will be looking for furniture soon.
@Diggler67 @TagAlongDeb i mean, pretty guilty of this considering I’ve gone several winters without owning a pair of gloves
@CeciliaBell I dread what she’ll think when she encounters the first of those guys
@pjohanneson I used to be that girl so I can’t judge
Clare
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