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upaloopa

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7. It's not. My mistake. I use to be a docent at a

Reply to hughee99 (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 04:03 PM

Mar 2013

place where there were Native American pictographs. People on the tour were amazed to know that they were at least 3,000 years old. They think that American history began in the area when the Spanish Missions were built.

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Boontling, America's other language for (mostly) white people is dying.... [View all] Bennyboy Mar 2013 OP

I suppose the native Americans spoke either English or upaloopa Mar 2013 #1

LOL! MineralMan Mar 2013 #2

I'd think Sequoyah might have something to say about that. Fawke Em Mar 2013 #3

Catholic priest Diego de Landa (R) would love to have had a chance to burn that, too Berlum Mar 2013 #14

I don't think English is a home grown language. n/t hughee99 Mar 2013 #5

It's not. My mistake. I use to be a docent at a upaloopa Mar 2013 #7

This does have me interested, though. What's considered the "other" hughee99 Mar 2013 #9

Apparently, Appalachian English KamaAina Mar 2013 #13

I think that is in CA if so Spanish was spoken there also upaloopa Mar 2013 #4

It's a jargon, not technically a language Canuckistanian Mar 2013 #6

It's actually a dialect of English. MineralMan Mar 2013 #8

I horned some of their steinber just a couple of weeks ago KamaAina Mar 2013 #10

Their fesrtival is a MUST DO for any beer lover.. Bennyboy Mar 2013 #12

Reminds me of this guy joeybee12 Mar 2013 #11