In Inuktitut, the answer to a negative question is the opposite of what it would be in English.
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Yes, We Have No Bananas — Revisited
A few weeks ago, I attended a symposium at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut as part of their Death in the Ice exhibition about the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin. I spoke on Inuktitut interpreting on the Franklin search expeditions.
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The return of the Resolute
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Who was Kate Mackay?
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The whale ship Wildfire
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Inuit catechists at Blacklead Island — Part 2
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Inuit catechists at Blacklead Island — Part 1
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Roses for Hannah
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Mikak and the Moravian Church in Labrador — Part 2
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Mikak and the Moravian Church in Labrador — Part 1
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Isaac Stringer, the bishop who ate his boots
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One hundred years ago — The death of Minik
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Father Turquetil—first Roman Catholic bishop of the Arctic
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The Dundee Pond’s Bay Company
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How I got kicked out of The Explorers Club
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Lady Franklin and the St. Paul’s Bell
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A well-travelled Inuktitut Bible
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Nunamingnut uteqihut: They have come home
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Minik, the New York Eskimo—A Mock Burial
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Historic Maud meets modern Fram
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The strange history of the igloo flag
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George Comer and Nivissannaq
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George Comer, the white shaman
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Jacko – Sir John Franklin’s monkey
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William Edward Parry’s medallions
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The Inuit two-dollar bill—a bittersweet memory