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First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.

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Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

Blood and cement

As if the recent shortage of cement in Jamaica was not bad enough for the construction industry, I read in today’s Gleaner that companies will now have to factor the cost of blood offerings into their budget plans:

CONSTRUCTION WORK came to a halt at the PiÃ±ero Group hotel site in Pear Tree Bottom, near Runaway Bay

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De Immigrant

May 3, 2006 at 9:24 pm · Reply

Now one has to really wonder, was any of that faulty cement to blame for that mishap? I mean surely the engineers on site knew how much support would be nneded, when and where while constructing the building. From what I hear this is a company that has been around for quite some time.
Mad Bull

May 4, 2006 at 12:01 am · Reply

LOL… You really had me laughing at this one! Sorry for the workers of course.
DI, you may just ahve something there re the faulty cement. Hey, I hope none of that cement has been sent to Trelawney to the new Stadium or to Sabina for the renovations there… that would not be funny…
WISugar

June 2, 2006 at 9:14 pm · Reply

OH MY GOD, and I was there in March!! I could have been haunted

Heard that it had nothing to do with bad cement, bad engineering practices caused by rush.

Running the red light

Kingston abounds in roadside exhortations.

Some go for a minimalist approach.

The reference is a call for peace and calm.

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone â€” for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

My favourite road

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Waterhot

January 20, 2006 at 6:35 pm · Reply

I’ve never understood the whole bible-reference-poster thing. Talk about preaching to the converted. No-one who is not already an avid bible reader/churchgoer is ever going to recognize the reference, and no-one who does not already read the bible on a regular basis is ever going to go and look it up. Which leads me to the conclusion that such messages are intended to be exclusive, and are not part of any campaign to spread the good word after all.
grannyp

January 22, 2006 at 5:30 pm · Reply

Trouble is: can you still watch the road? (With or without zimmer frame.)

Sod ‘em and begorrah

Following up Zinnia’s links on my earlier post, I found this mildly interesting article, I was born this way, from the Jamaican Gleaner in 2001.

More fascinating was the comments page.

There’s an initially amusing flame war between TT and Saleem and his girlfriend, before the online casino comment spam takes over. The page was still loading after

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rachie

January 18, 2006 at 12:59 pm · Reply

Ria, your blog just gets better and better. I’m so loving it at the moment – just thought I’d let you know! I want to go to Jamaica too!

Also wanted to let you know that for some reason, some of the words on the left hand side of the page disappear, which is a bit of a gutter, as I can’t make out the song lyris you posted a few days ago….
Ria

January 18, 2006 at 1:09 pm · Reply

Oops. Forgot to check it in IE. (Get Firefox!) Odd how it gets worse down the page, as if it’s sliding diagonally.

Better now?

Still seems to screw up the left indent sometimes. Repeated reloading makes it better, which is as subtle as giving the telly a good whack with the flat of your hand. But it works.

Er … not.

Help, anyone?

***update***
Problem fixed. It was a variant on the double-margin IE bug.
Zinnia Cyclamen

January 18, 2006 at 5:37 pm · Reply

Those comments are fascinating! It never fails to amaze me how the Bible can be quoted to back up any kind of viewpoint.
guyana-gyal

January 19, 2006 at 6:04 pm · Reply

I wonder how many of those *leter* writers live *perfekly vurtuous lifes.*
Ria

January 19, 2006 at 7:20 pm · Reply

Interesting too is the symbolic value of bread. Lot offered unleavened bread (good); the evil ones ate risen bread (bad). So bad, in fact, that it is on par with other “abominations”. Consequence? Burn the buggers and the burgers.

And don’t get me started on Leviticus 18 … Grrrr.

I been a lady up to now, don’t know how much more I can take
Queens shouldn’t swing if you know what I mean
But I’m bout to take my rings off, get me some vaseline
– Jill Scott
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Lucifer, son of the morning

I’m gonna chase you out of earth!

So begins one of my all-time favourite songs, Chase the Devil by Max Romeo, produced by the divinely crazy Lee Perry. Its startling opening lines are lifted from the Bible.

Romeo: Lucifer son of the morning, I’m gonna chase you out of earth!Isaiah 14:12: How art thou fallen from heaven, O

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