Tom Lougheed

Wetting-Down

Tom, just gotta leave you a quick message to thank you for the most delightfully funny Wikipedia article I have read. Your Wetting-down piece is warm and touching, in addition to it being informative. Please keep writing. David Wigram Nov 24 2006

Chinook Jargon

User Skookum1 asked where my Chinook Jargon comes from. Please note that I only know a few words, although I’ve been surprised from studying Chinook that what little I know, I didn’t know I knew.

My family are old settlers; the first batch immigrated to the Washington Territory from other parts of the United States just before the territory’s formation, the last arriving before the end of the American Civil War. Their homes were along the middle reaches of the Chehalis River, mostly between the towns of Montesano and Porter. As such, I expect that all sides of my family had some exposure to the Jargon. In addition, my great-great grandfather, Rev. Sam Lougheed, was a circut preacher on the Olympic Peninsula; some of my family’s jargon may come from what he learned circling the penninsula and meeting with native people living on the western coast of the penninsula. Certainly I knew words such as skookum from childhood.

As young men, Sam’s grandsons, my grandfather and his several brothers, were loggers in the Black Hills and the southern Olympic Mountains. In fact, my father was born in and spent the first few years of his life in a logging camp in the upper reaches of the Wynoochee River Valley, near 47°10′40″N, 123°36′30″W. I rather expect that the jargon that I learned as a child, mostly from my father, came from the camps. Finally, my father’s parents were friends with a Quinault woman and some of her family. They were eager learners, and may well have picked up more Chinook Jargon or Salishan from her. I distinctly remember my father’s otherwise stern mother (all the more shocking!) teaching me that the proper name for a skunk was “stinky butt” (hum uputs). I also recall that growing up I thought “haven’t got itkus” (taught to me by a first-cousin) was all standard English.

List of anthropologists

it seems that you are working on this article so I will not nominate it for now. Feel free to Afd it yourself after you finished converting everything.--Lenticel ^(talk) 11:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Just wondering if you're still working on this or if it's ok to AfD it yet? -- œ^™ 05:12, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry: Graduate school started full tilt and I lost momentum. Tom Lougheed (talk)

Welcome back

Yo; just noticed your CJ edits....where ya been? My "wikibreak" continues unabated at full-tilt, probably more "here" than ever.....Skookum1 (talk) 15:30, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

CJ story source needed

Hi Tom: Figured you might have some knowledge of teh story discussed in this new section on Talk:Chinook Jargon. I know it's out there somewhere, though apparently not in Pasco. Skookum1 (talk) 15:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry -- I only know the Jargon I've heard from members of my family. I haven't read any books on the Jargon, although I've looked for dictionaries. Tom Lougheed (talk) 21:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Major Update of Jungian Interp. of Religion

Tom, I've added significant material about Jung's approach to Western religion, his extenders and detractors. Please have a look at User: Tedlau/Jungian interpretation of religion--Tedlau (talk) 15:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

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Request for peer review help

Hi Melburnian. I hope you are doing well and staying safe during these times! Apologize to bother and posting a random request. I have just started to work on a stub (Fontainea Venosa)and had added some sections. I am trying my best to get the article to B class hopefully. Knowing your expertise, I would love if you can help me to review and left a comment on what I can do to improve my edits. I hope that this is okay, but no pressure if you are busy. That is completely fine and understandable :) Hope to hear from you soon. The article is Fontainea Venosa

Thank you so much :) Sparklingkull (talk) 01:19, 24 May 2021 (UTC)