Scholar sole speaker of Huron language[Canada]

The Star ^ | 24 Dec 2007 | John Goddard

[BGHater]

Link has the singing of the 'Huron Carol'.

[ClearCase_guy]

But what does Kemosabe mean?

[fish hawk]

white trash

[Marathoner 244]

Must be lonely not having anyone to talk to. /s

[ClearCase_guy]

A few weeks or months ago there was a thread about a pastor who regularly "spoke in tongues" -- until someone in the congregation realized that he was speaking one of JRR Tolkien's Elvish languages. Very embarrassing.

I'm hoping that Huron does not contain phrases like: "A Elbereth Gilthoniel!"

[Jeff Chandler]

a $1 million federal grant to develop Huron-language teaching materials

Nice gig.

[Jeff Chandler]

"The okie spirit who enslaved us has fled,"

Folks in Oklahoma aren't going to like this.

[Jeff Chandler]

...Beaver Wars ...

I'm still waiting for Lucas to make the film.

[G8 Diplomat]

“Canada” is the Iriquois word for “big village.” Funny because Canada’s population is relatively small compared to many Western nations.

[the invisib1e hand]

Must be lonely not having anyone to talk to. /s

yeah, but think of the upside. No one to argue with you, correct your spelling or pronounciation, your grammar, your logic....

come to think of it, what's to keep you from claiming you're the worlds only speaker of the ancient "marathoner224" dialect?

Gee. Talk about "controling the language..."

[herecomesthesun]

This is an interesting article. I’d like for people to know that the Huron tribe was also native to Michigan; many of the remaining Huron people were moved to Oklahoma in the 1800s.

Eastern Michigan University used to be the Hurons but a politically correct board of regents snookered by a fraudulent chief replaced “Hurons” with “Eagles”. There was only one “Hurons” in all of college athletics, but hundreds of “Eagles”. I hope they will change it back someday, but I am not optimistic because the alliance to restore the Huron name and logo has all but disappeared, as far as I can tell.

[Cheburashka]

But what does Kemosabe mean?

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“Moron who buys silver bullets and then wonders why he is always broke.”

[Waco]

No one to talk to, hone all alone,,,,,

[Nonstatist]

Shenk ontehtian saundustee che’estaheh agnienon.

[Right Republican]

Here’s yet another example of how the truth slips in about the demise of most Native Americans. They weren’t killed in a coordinated genocidal system employed by racist white Europeans; most Indians died simply by exposure to viruses and bacteria that that the explorers brought with them from another hemisphere. IOW, it just happened.

Now, I suppose most guilty white liberal Americans believe that once Europeans found out that the Western Hemisphere was populated, they should have just gotten back onto their ships and sailed back to crowded Europe, thus preserving the so-called pristine Americas for the natives who were already here.

Sigh. Silly guilty white liberals. Not only didn’t the French, Spanish, English, and Dutch NOT do that, neither would you, if you were in the same situation as they were some 500 years ago.

Thus, get off my back. I’m NOT sorry whites came to America and I’m NOT sorry for something that whites had no control over (the spread of disease via mere exposure to one another).

Furthermore, I’m NOT sorry that there is only one speaker of the Huron language. I’m sure that there are 100’s of languages that have disappeared over the centuries, if not millenia. Are we to spend a million bucks trying to preserve each one? And for what purpose? Guilt?

One Language. One Nation. Under (the Christian) God. Indivisible.

I am the
Right Republican

[pfflier]

If he is the last speaker, how does anyone know he is doing it without an accent?

[Beagle8U]

I could correct the stupid article where it said the Huron tribes all but died out in the 1600’s.

There were many Huron bands in Michigan in the 1800’s.

I am Huron/Scot and my ancestors lived in Mi for hundreds of years.

[chemicalman]

Sounds like Neil Diamond to me.

[joshhiggins]

It was a well done satire.

14 September, 2007

Pastors's Supposed "Speaking in Tounges" Actually Quenya

Calvert, Maryland - Scandal broke this past weekend at First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Calvert. The incident centered around the churches pastor, Rev. Art Lofton, and his supposed tremendous gift of "speaking in tongues." Lofton, who has been the pastor of the church for over five years, often amazed and charmed his congregation with what many called "a truly spectacular gift."

"Brother Lofton had the most amazing gift of tongues I had ever heard, so I thought" said member Emma Harris. "So often I have heard people speaking in tongues and, while I don't want to be critical, it just sounds like they're saying the same thing over and over again off the top of their heads. But when brother Lofton spoke it really sounded so real! It sounded like he was speaking real sentences with a smooth flow to them. And the words sounded smooth, beautiful and truly angelic. We all thought he truly had the gift."

But what many considered a "beautiful gift" was discovered this past weekend to not be as "miraculous" as many people thought. As it turns out now, for the past five years Lofton has been charming his congregation with the language Quenya. Quenya is an artificial or "constructed" language invented by famed British author J.R.R. Tolkien. The language is one of the tongues spoken by the fictitious people of Middle Earth in his series, The Lord of the Rings.

In Lofton's case, his "secret" was discovered during a morning worship service in which a number of new college students visited the church. The discovery was made by Brent Perkins, a freshman at Calvert Community College.

"I'm a pretty die-hard Tolkien fan" said Perkins. "A couple of years ago I started to learn the Elvish tongue. So, the service was going well and all that. Then during the pastor's sermon he started getting really emotional and started speaking in tongues. Everyone around me just got so overwhelmed. I thought it was some kind of joke though. I leaned over to my friend Tricia who was with me and I said 'Hey, he's speaking in Elvish.' She didn't believe me at first, but then my friend Chris realized the same thing."

After the service the kids talked with Lofton.

"I went up to the pastor and asked him 'Did you know you were speaking in Quenya?' " said Perkins. "Like all of the blood just drained from his face, but some of the other people around us heard us and asked us what Quenya was. So we told about The Lord of the Rings and stuff and they seemed to get really upset. By the time we turned around the pastor was gone."

"As word begin to spread around about what was going on everyone was getting pretty upset" stated Harris. "We felt deceived, cheated and swindled. Here we were thinking that our pastor had this magnificent gift of tongues and all he had done was learn this fake language."

TBNN received notice that the congregation has since caught up with Lofton and that he has confessed to his "sin." At the writing of this article the church has not decided what they are going to do in regards to his status as pastor.

"We just don't know what we're going to do yet" said Reynold Farris, one of the church's deacons. "How could we ever trust him? Since no one ever knows what anyone else is saying when people speak in tongues, how could we know for certain he wasn't speaking Klingon or something up there. Speaking in tongues is the most genuine and real only when it is spontaneous and makes no sense to anyone else."

TBNN will continue to monitor this situation.

[Moonman62]

One was "The Huron Carol." Oral tradition attributes it to Jean de Brébeuf, the first Jesuit priest fluent in Huron who was later famous – and canonized – for his stoic calm while being tortured at the stake and scalped.

The music critics were much tougher back then.