[lit-ideas] Re: To bus a lime...
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:33:23 -0800
On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
Ah, crapaud.
(I'm now spending too much time reading Trini sayings on the web!)
I really like that last one I submitted, "If snake come outa bush an'
say 'snake dey,'--he dey." If a snake comes out of the bush and
says, "I'm a snake," it's most definitely a snake. What I like about
this, other than the way it's expressed--he dey!-- is the paradoxical
thought that if a snake *says* it's a snake, you can trust that it's
a snake. If a snake talks, it's clearly not a snake.
Before we get too pollyanna-ish, somewhere--I've lost the page--is a
word to describe, "hitting someone repeatedly with the flat part of a
machete blade." Clearly this happens often enough to need such a word.
One final one, "They don' pelt mango tree wit'out mango," meaning,
"persons who are doers often come in for unfair criticism."
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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