On Education in Chuuk: Address by Petrus Mailo to the Students, Chuuk High School

Goodenough, Ward H. (1992). "On Education in Chuuk: Address by Petrus Mailo to the Students, Chuuk High School". ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies. 1 (2): 261–276. ISSN 1054-9390.

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Abstract: The following text has been transcribed and translated by Ward H. Goodenough with the collaboration of the late Boutau K. Efot. We present the text as actually spoken by Petrus Mallo. Thus some words appear in the form they take in Mwáán dialect rather than in the more widely accepted forms (e.g., árámás rather than aramas 'people, humans' and kkapás 'talk, speech'. Petrus also varied his pronunciation. We have edited the text only in the few places where apparent slips of the tongue or grammatical lapses (or our errors of transcription) obscured the obvious message being communicated. Such editing is shown in brackets in the Chuukese text that follows immediately after the Notes appended to the English text. We have kept the translation very close to the Chuukese to preserve as much as possible in English the flavor of Mr. Mailo's rhetorical style...