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| Jul 20, 2016 at 11:48 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine |
Such expressions are ambiguous. You can say naika tumtum kopa klootzman (word-for-word, that's "I think about [a] woman"). My Chinook Jargon is rusty so I am specualting about this particular sentence but I guess it could also be parsed as "I heart in [am] female", to mean "I am a woman at heart".
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| Jul 20, 2016 at 9:30 | comment | added | Natalie Clarius | When the choice of word order is rather free, is a clear meaning guaranteed, or are such expressions ambiguous or vague, as happens often in pidgin languages? | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 9:26 | history | answered | Omar and Lorraine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |