{"id":483,"date":"2011-04-09T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T05:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2011\/04\/09\/ssayy-whhatt\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T10:40:08","slug":"ssayy-whhatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2011\/04\/09\/ssayy-whhatt\/","title":{"rendered":"SSayy Whhatt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve finally started the next step of the process of our reason for being here in the Ga\u2019dang tribe.&#160; Hurray!&#160; The Lord has blessed me with a language helper, Zaldo, who is eager to assist me in this daunting task, even when it hurts his ears.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>For example, we were practising making sentences using places to go to, how we got there, who went, and when we did it.&#160; Sounds simple, eh?&#160; Maybe in English!&#160; Here\u2019s a sample: \u201cI rode a water buffalo to the school yesterday\u201d.&#160; In Ga\u2019dang I should\u2019ve said; \u201cNaddaffuwak se ageskwelan se gafi.\u201d&#160; This is a case of <strong><u>not<\/u><\/strong> easier said than done!<\/p>\n<p>Notice the double consonants?&#160; Zaldo, along with everyone else listening was able to hear it when I didn\u2019t say those double consonants right.&#160; Then there\u2019s the \u2018a\u2019 sound, which can almost sound like a short \u2018u\u2019 (as in c<u>u<\/u>t)or \u2018a\u2019 (as in c<u>a<\/u>t) instead of \u2018a\u2019, as in b<u>a<\/u>ll if I\u2019m not careful.&#160; Those really hurt his ears!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a few more fun ones with double consonants I twisted my tongue around:<\/p>\n<p>Nallakarak \u2013 I walked<\/p>\n<p>Sintaw naggabwatannu? Where did you come from?<\/p>\n<p>Ansa nadingngangngo? What do you hear?<\/p>\n<p>The trick (I think) is to split the doubbles between syllables without making it too obvious.&#160; That offten gets funny looks too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_3400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 5px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100_3400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_3400_thumb.jpg\" width=\"407\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pray for us as we dig into the language here and try to make sense of it.&#160; Clarity of speech is essential for when we present God\u2019s Word to them someday, hopefully not too far in the disttant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve finally started the next step of the process of our reason for being here in the Ga\u2019dang tribe.&#160; Hurray!&#160; The Lord has blessed me with a language helper, Zaldo, who is eager to assist me in this daunting task, even when it hurts his ears.&#160; For example, we were practising making sentences using places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}