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Saturday, December 4, 2010
G20 sherpas
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This was something I'd seen about a month back on TV. It was a news report about the G20 summit in Seoul and the 'G20 Sherpas'. ...
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Mani Rimdu
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The festival of Mani Rimdu at Tengboche, sometimes referred to that 'dancing monk' festival, takes place in the 9th Tibetan month, u...
Monday, November 1, 2010
Volitionality and passing gas
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In Sherpa, like in other Tibetic languages, a distinction is made between volitional and non-volitional verbs, meaning that when you describ...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sherpa Evidentials
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For the past week I've been here in the stunningly beautiful Khumbu (the region just south of Mount Everest), visting my friend Sara who...
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Cursing in Sherpa
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Going through the recently published Sherpa-English dictionary looking for volitional / non-volitional verb sets before next week's tri...
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