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New street signs with Massachusett language translation will be installed in East Cambridge
Boston Globe ^ | December 6, 2023 | By Molly Farrar

Posted on 12/08/2023 4:02:36 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

After more than 2,500 Cambridge residents made their voices heard during the participatory budget vote in 2021, more than 70 new street signs in East Cambridge will include translations into the native Massachusett language.

Sage Carbone, a Cambridge resident, proposed the participatory budget item to add traditional Native translations to city signs, along with commemorating Native American sites in Cambridge with markers.

“Any representation is missing,” she said. Carbone is a member of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island with Nipmuc, Massachusett ancestry.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 2depressing4words; cambridge; indians; isthisthebee; language; massachusetts; signs; translations
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On my first trip to Wales, I approached a hair-pin curve coming down a mountain. Just ahead of the curve was signage in English/Welsh: Slow Now/Arafwch Nawr. Either was fine for me. A bit like putting sticky labels with the language you are learning on common items around the house.
41 posted on 12/08/2023 4:46:45 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Eccl 10:2

“ While we’re at it, why is it the Boston Celtics (like sell-ticks) but it’s Celtic (like kell-tick) music?”

Actually, selltick is Irish and kelltick is Scottish.


42 posted on 12/08/2023 4:50:05 PM PST by stanne
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sounds like cultural appropriation.


43 posted on 12/08/2023 4:50:13 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Native language for Mushmouth?
Haba manba. Waba youba doin?
Thats from Fat Albert show. A kid show from the ‘70s.


44 posted on 12/08/2023 4:51:10 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: Eccl 10:2

“ While we’re at it, why is it the Boston Celtics (like sell-ticks) but it’s Celtic (like kell-tick) music?”
Phooey. No. Opposite

Actually, Keltic is Irish and selltick is Scottish.


45 posted on 12/08/2023 4:51:15 PM PST by stanne
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To: wildcard_redneck
Waste of money.

Especially when Boston is polluted with a masculine bronze equestrian statue of slave owner George Washington that needs recycling. </s>


46 posted on 12/08/2023 4:51:23 PM PST by Reeses
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To: broken_clock

NewBeffud isn’t Bostonese. (I lived nearby in RudEylan for a few years in the late ‘80s.) It’s a distinct accent unto itself.

Boston had several distinct accents when I lived there, from Beacon Hill to Southie to Bay Village to Revere. Leaving aside the melanistic ‘hoods in Roxbury and Dorchester. Forty years on, it probably has a few more.

The lead character in the movie “Good Will Hunting” absolutely nailed the old working-class WASP accent. As distinct from the lower-class Irish accent, which is what the Kennedys spoke. Italians in the North End could be told from those in Revere.

(Doing all the various Boston accents used to be my party trick, but after 40 years in the Midwest I’ve pretty much lost them all.)

“Wicked” is a Maineism, not used in Boston in my experience.


47 posted on 12/08/2023 4:51:38 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ConservativeStatement

How many people speak or converse in public in that language?


48 posted on 12/08/2023 4:53:41 PM PST by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I have always been told that in Boston a red light is merely a suggestion

When driving in and around Boston, one can see what this means.


49 posted on 12/08/2023 5:02:26 PM PST by stanne
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To: escapefromboston

Thread title suggest the ebonic/slang of the Massachusetts natives that is referred to as “accent”.


50 posted on 12/08/2023 5:02:52 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The whole state has a name from the Massachusett language. I am guessing there are plenty of other Massachusett place names too.


51 posted on 12/08/2023 5:05:21 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: freeandfreezing
I could be wrong, but I don't think the Indians had a written language.

Everything was handed down by oral tradition and stories told by elders to the young.

52 posted on 12/08/2023 5:12:00 PM PST by boop (YOU sit in YOUR seat!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I miss Ro dye lan. When people in Texas first hear me speak they say,” Are you from NY? Everybody. I guess I must have a really heavy accent. Nope RI through and through.


53 posted on 12/08/2023 5:14:06 PM PST by heylady
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To: bgill

I don’t see a Duolingo course for Massachusett.


54 posted on 12/08/2023 5:14:27 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Woonsocket too


55 posted on 12/08/2023 5:15:07 PM PST by heylady
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To: ConservativeStatement

It still is written in the language of the white man.


56 posted on 12/08/2023 5:15:40 PM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: posterchild

Thank you. As I viewed that picture I wondered to myself whether the east coast natives even kept ponies. That was the plains and western tribes.


57 posted on 12/08/2023 5:18:18 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: ConservativeStatement
This is nuts...and a waste...

But not as dumb as changing the names of our military bases, ripping down Confederate Flags, disallowing crosses in all kinds of situations.

58 posted on 12/08/2023 5:25:44 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: rfp1234
The whole thing with the Indians was their shortcoming of having no written language.

That's why they were called savages..

Wish these Indians would make up your minds...because they're removing team, school names etc...because they are offensive.

59 posted on 12/08/2023 5:29:17 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: freeandfreezing

Because there is such a big Indian population in Massachusetts:

Massachusetts by the numbers

- Native American population: 17,875
- Proportion of state’s population: 0.3% (#43 highest among all states)

A whopping 0.3%


60 posted on 12/08/2023 5:31:15 PM PST by Beowulf9
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