"no tengo armas para enfrentarte / pongo mis manos, manos al aire"

[larryhammer]

From the TV Tropes subpage of Large Hams in Real Life:

The Lakota (Sioux) language has special constructions for rhetoric (in other words, it marks hamminess in its grammar the way Japanese marks politeness) — and men's speech is marked by using them. Apparently, the Sioux believed Real Men Chew Scenery.

I, wait -- what?

Wikipedia is incompletely helpful here. Can anyone confirm, deny, or expound upon this?

---L.

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[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but erzebet might.

[larryhammer]

Ah -- thanks.

---L.