Posted on 01/13/2023 5:00:51 AM PST by blueplum
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive damage to homes along Alaska’s western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents — largely Alaska Natives — repair property damage.
Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency paperwork expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup’ik or Inupiaq instead were reading bizarre phrases.
“Tomorrow he will go hunting very early, and will (bring) nothing,” read one passage. The translator randomly added the word “Alaska” in the middle of the sentence.
“Your husband is a polar bear, skinny,” another said.
Yet another was written entirely in Inuktitut, an Indigenous language spoken in northern Canada, far from Alaska....
...It appears the words and phrases used in the translated documents were taken from Nikolai Vakhtin’s 2011 edition of “Yupik Eskimo Texts from the 1940s,” ...field notes collected on Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula....
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
As I often say to my wife, “There is incompetence everywhere.”
My igloo is full of eels, bouncy bouncy
These days though the country reeks with incompetence. It is everywhere. There is also a hefty dose of IDGAF.
I will not buy this polar bear, it is scratched.
“There is incompetence everywhere.” Yes, and government agencies excel in it.
Drop your panties, Nanook, I cannot wait ‘til lunchtime.
Hahahaha...”Don’t come knocking’ if the igloo is rocking’!”
But this is a funny story. The ability of the propaganda media to create crises out of trivial incidents, is amazing.
I wager a significant number of the people reading the pamphlets had a good laugh!
Crazy government! Ha Ha!
LMAO! I knew this’d be a funny thread!!
FR needs a 'like' button, LOL
“My dull harpoon will bring no children or whale blubber.”
WOW!
Something personally writen by the President!!!
IMHO, it has ‘ChatGPT’ smeared all over it.
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