Thursday, March 21, 2019, T+78, Part 3

Basketball: NDSU (16) will play Duke (1) tomorrow (Friday) at 6:10 p.m. Talk about incredible exposure -- a Friday night. What could possibly be better. March Madness.

The market. WTI just went green (10:31 a.m. Central Time, March 21, 2019); up 9 cents to $60.32.

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Make my day:

• NOG: up another 5% today; now trading at $2.77
• AAPL: up over $6; up over 3%; now trading at $194 with a target of $225
• EW: up almost 2%; over over $3/share
• UNP: climbing a wall of worry

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The Book Page

The Comanche Code Talkers Of World War II, William C. Meadows, c. 2002, University of Texas press.

On June 6, 1944, D-Day, thirteen Comanches in the Fourth Infantry Division, Fourth Signal Company, made an amphibious landing with thousands of Allied troops along the Utah Beachhead on the Normandy coast of France. While under German fire, they immediately began to lay wire for communications transmission lines and began to send their messages in a form never before heard in Europe, in coded Comanche. During the next eleven months ...

The first message received in Comanche by the code talkers at the division command was from Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., reporting that he had landed safely. As Forrest Kassanavoid described:

One of the boys, Larry Saupitty, was the driver-radio operator-orderly for Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who was the Assistant Division Commander.

When they made the landing at Utah, General Roosevelt was the field commander of the forces that landed on Utah and he sent a message back to the command ship and didn't want the Germans to know that they had landed at the wrong space because they landed about 2,000 yards away from where their initial point was supposed to be.

And he didn't want the Germans to know that, so he sent a message back and he had Larry send a message back to the command ship in Comanche telling them that ... the landing was good, but it was in the wrong place.

The message read: "Tsaaku nunnuwee. We made a good landing. Atahut nunnuwee. We landed at the wrong place."

And that as the message he sent and this was Larry Saupitty, a code talker ... sending the message for Brigadier General Teheodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... As far as we know, that was the first [combat] message that was sent in code, as a code by a [Comanche] code talker.

General Roosevelt had two options ... his decision ... "We'll start the war from here."

Comanche code talkers also involved at the Battle of Bastogne.

Kiowa is an extremely difficult language for a non-Kiowa to learn for several reasons.

First, Kiowa is a tonal language, having ten possible pronunciation pitches for ever single syllable and one hundred possible pronunciation pitches for every two-syllable word (only a few of which have any assigned meaning).
Kiowa contains a hearsay tense not found in English, lacks the equivalent of English articles, and has 550 syllables.

Grammatically, Kiowa has nouns, verbs, adjectives, and verbal-adjectives. Furthermore, Kiowa contains a complex system of seventy pronoun forms which differ greatly from English pronouns and contains a system of multiple and irregular use of dual embodiment in pronoun forms (two subjects conveyed in a single pronoun form).

Kiowa is also characterized by frequent contractions or "clipped forms," agglutination of numerous words and clauses into lengthy expression, and contains an irregular pattern of expressing single, dual, and triplural forms for any object -- the rules for which have still not been completely and grammatically understood or recorded to this day by Kiowa or Anglo scholars. -- pp. 66 - 67.

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Hard to believe this was ever an issue. Glad to see North Dakota has such a progressive governor. I understand Pocahontas has been invited to give commencement address at a Dickinson, ND, middle school. Probably just a rumor.