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Can somebody check this sentence from a website owned by the government of Kerala?
There is a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions, except in so far as he is by or under the Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion.
Seen here. I can't understand what the italicised part means. Sundardas ( talk) 10:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC) His function or functions? 121.72.192.28 ( talk) 11:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm working on a story set in the way-pre-contact Eastern Woodland (the Ohio Hopewell), and I'm having a bit of trouble with names. I've written most of the story without them, but there are a few places where I need a name - mostly just "Go find this person who lives a good long walk in that direction and tell him this."
Is the popular idea of generalized Native American names being something like "noun", "noun noun", "verb noun", or "adjective noun" actually a workable, non-insulting way of naming my characters? Are there any words that I should avoid that, as a person with very little experience with Native American culture, I wouldn't think of as bad? Or maybe a list of real names/nouns that can be used as names from a Muscogean language (as the Creek and Choctaw are two groups that mtDNA testing implies are descendants of the Hopewell)?
Thanks, 71.220.127.228 ( talk) 21:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
There is a 207-item Swadesh list (a list of supposed basic words in any language) at Swadesh list. Can anyone shed any light on the copyright status of this list? Swadesh died too recently for it to have fallen into the public domain. Marnanel ( talk) 22:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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Can somebody check this sentence from a website owned by the government of Kerala?
There is a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions, except in so far as he is by or under the Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion.
Seen here. I can't understand what the italicised part means. Sundardas ( talk) 10:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC) His function or functions? 121.72.192.28 ( talk) 11:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm working on a story set in the way-pre-contact Eastern Woodland (the Ohio Hopewell), and I'm having a bit of trouble with names. I've written most of the story without them, but there are a few places where I need a name - mostly just "Go find this person who lives a good long walk in that direction and tell him this."
Is the popular idea of generalized Native American names being something like "noun", "noun noun", "verb noun", or "adjective noun" actually a workable, non-insulting way of naming my characters? Are there any words that I should avoid that, as a person with very little experience with Native American culture, I wouldn't think of as bad? Or maybe a list of real names/nouns that can be used as names from a Muscogean language (as the Creek and Choctaw are two groups that mtDNA testing implies are descendants of the Hopewell)?
Thanks, 71.220.127.228 ( talk) 21:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
There is a 207-item Swadesh list (a list of supposed basic words in any language) at Swadesh list. Can anyone shed any light on the copyright status of this list? Swadesh died too recently for it to have fallen into the public domain. Marnanel ( talk) 22:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)