Culture events with 5-5 Luck & Chance tag

A tree almost falls on Yogubo

Edited Feb. 12, 2024, 9:55 a.m. by Steve

Alus and Yogubo tell the story about a tree branch nearly landing on Yogubo while on the trail. They use the word lucky, despite it all being tok ples...

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Almost falling over

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Steve

Steve slipped while going uphill and Samuel cried out. He said that they cry out because saying 'don't fall down' makes it not happen....

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Do you have any superstitions?

Edited Feb. 12, 2024, 2:55 p.m. by Steve

After explaining some white man superstitions I asked if Kovol had anything similar....

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Interview about words causing results

Edited Feb. 13, 2024, 8:53 a.m. by Steve

1. oo ig nim higoomung yam Ulumo honn honn amoot "holoogul heseb mandas" et nom stoli amee (when we were milling Ulumo always said stand up strong and walk about, talk about that) 2. Ulumo endet ama, ig holoogul oboob mu yolu yamung ig? (when Ulumo said that did we not fall down?) 3. ig hobol holoog...

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Rhett almost squashed by a log

Edited Feb. 12, 2024, 10:09 a.m. by Steve

Got Alus to tell the story about the time milling where Rhett surfed a log down the mountain to see how he tells it and to ask about the word lucky in relation to that....

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Was Lendi breaking her leg bad luck?

Edited Feb. 12, 2024, 9:14 a.m. by Steve

When Lendi broke her leg the family attributed it to not doing a wanbel meal with us. It was asked in the context of talking for a while about luck and chance. I asked about that and if it was bad luck or not. Alus seemed to switch wholly into the abagam bili vocabulary and luck didn't come over....

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What would you say for luck?

Edited Feb. 8, 2024, 12:44 p.m. by Steve

Asking people to translation the Luck and chance into Kovol, when people were familiar with these words in Tok Pisin/English...

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sans abus

Edited Feb. 13, 2024, 8:58 a.m. by Steve

After Yogubo talked about sans abus, when you come across meat luckily I asked Semik about it....

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