May 9, 2013
Kenneth and Caroline Frank say that the name of the water
bugs given to the blind man by his wife, chehtsi’, is a common metaphor used for
someone who is always slow. In the
BM&L story the wife goes down to the lake to fetch him a cup of water and
is gone for a very long time. Kenneth
and Caroline think that the metaphor for someone who is “slow” may have entered
the Gwich’in language through this story.
See in the book, Maggie Gilbert’s text, lines 137-155, p. 75 and p. 81.
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