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🎆July 4th: Mahima_miniOrange_SSO July 11th: @Patrícia Montenegro July 18th: @James O_Connor July 25th: Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io |
August August 1st: August 8th: Anwesha Pan _TCS_ August 15th: Andrew Zimmerman August 22nd: @Jimmy Seddon August 29th: @Walter Buggenhout |
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September September 5th: Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io September 12th: James O_Connor September 19th: September 26th: |
October October 3rd: October 10th: J R October 17th: October 24th: Anwesha Pan _TCS_ 🎃October 31st: Gee Espiritu |
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Hi, @J R - sorry for the late reminder, but you are signed up to host tomorrow's Feel Good Friday. Thanks!
@Patrícia Montenegro - here's your reminder for tomorrow's Feel Good Friday post!
I’m really happy about it—thank you so much, I truly appreciate it! Since it’ll be morning soon in Europe and Asia, I’ll go ahead and post it shortly. We belong to this amazing community, and it’s great to be part of it. 😊
@Walter Buggenhout - here's your reminder for tomorrow's Feel Good Friday post!
Hi, @James O_Connor - just a reminder that you're up for tomorrow's post. Thank you!
@Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io - here's your reminder for Feel Good Friday for July 25th!
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Jamaican Patois
I wanted to take the time to bring awareness to Language and specifically, a dialect in Jamaica called Patois.
Patois is a mixture of some African and English dialect and its origins stem from when Africans were transported to Jamaica during the Atlantic Slave trade in the 16th Century.
Since then, patois remains a vibrantly used and yet to be official language in Jamaica.
Some say that our patois language might not have much executive functioning in it.
Many of us don’t speak with much precision to measurements.
It’s as if the language wasn’t wired for much delay.
There’s a lot of hurriedness in it.
There’s no 5 pint of salt or 10 km from here in it.
Instead , we may say likkle bit of salt, if our Canadian cousin asked how much salt is needed in our rice and peas dinner.
Our fave beach may very well be within our field of vision and so we might say that the beach deh dung d road instead of its to down that road.
For even better precisioning or estimating, we may attempt to say 10 minutes from here instead of 10km perhaps because time is easier to picture and grasp than distance.
With Patois, time , though subjective, may be more palatable, than distance, which is finite and distinct.
Our language is qualitatively colourful and I think we should celebrate this more often. One can sense it in the rhythm of our music , feel it in our dances, sports and the other things the nation is known for.
As we approach National Heroes day on the 20th of October, I’m taking the moment to reflect on our ancestors and all the remarkable foundation that Patois has built for us.
Thanks to our National Heroes.
#NarionalHeroesDay