Anansi and Miss Lou
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Miss Lou
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Anansi, Miss Lou and the ‘raw chaw’ argument
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Published: Sunday | March 8, 2009
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Killing originality
In one of her wicked poems, ‘Bans a Killin’ Miss Lou persuasively argues that Jamaican - which she calls ‘dialect’ - is not inferior to English. And she firmly puts in his place censorious Mas Charlie who, somewhat like the Broadcasting Commission these days, is trying to kill off verbal creativity in the slack local language. Here are the first two and the last two verses of Miss Lou’s poem:
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So yuh a de man me hear bout!
Ah yuh dem seh dah teck
Whole heap a English oat seh
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Yuh gwine kill dialect!
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Mar 08 2009
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