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QotD: Try Again with God
Winners don’t quit try again this time with God. — Maryam Elisha
Who is Maryam Elisha? A Nigerian fashion model, apparently, and one for whom punctuation is not all that. One of her fashion model titles was even Miss Environment. I can overlook all of that, though. The idea here is well worth contemplating. Try again, this time with God.
It’s a new month, time for a new beginning. Try that thing in your life again, and this time, include God in it.
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It looks like a mere twenty-six openings left this month. Get ’em while they’re free. They really are easy to do.
I like the quote. Also I could forgive her a lot of things. She is pretty easy on the eyes.
Because the post was so well written, I feel pretty sure that the unfamiliar syntax in the second sentence is “the New Talk”, as Professor Higgins described Eliza Doolittle’s unexpected locution (“‘Done her in’? ‘Done her in’?!)
So I am going to start using it. For me, keeping up with changes to English is “all that”.
Note: if it was just an editorial slip, you can either fix it and I will stop using it, or, accept that this is just the sort of accidental discovery by which our beloved living language grows, and “leave” it “lay”, as the kids say now.
Go for it. That locution has been out there for at least a few decades.
Perhaps used most exuberantly, in another context, by Rabbie Burns.
From the mouths of babes and those for whom English is a second language (she appears to be both)…
I enjoy such locutions, warts and all. Sometimes, they are more direct and revealing than those made according to the more formal strictures of the King’s English.
One of my personal favorites was uttered by a young lady of my acquaintance about a mutual friend:
“He don’t like people what talk him the truth.”
Could not have put it better myself. Wouldn’t change a word.
Oh, aye!
Sounds like time to sign up. Still plenty of openings.
OK, done.
Much braver than I. Well done.
It’s not that hard and takes no bravery. Really, you’re floating on someone else’ thoughts. It’s the easiest way to create a post.
Yes. It’s sort of like plagiarism, but more honest.
And as I proved today, you don’t even have to know who the person is.
Y’all can’t keep me in suspense like this. Tell me the poem!
I know a few Nigerians and they speak what is called “Pidgin English.” It’s kind of a simplification of grammar. Nigeria has a bunch of native languages, but they use English as a common language with which to communicate. It is the official language. Here are some partial lyrics from Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musical legend:
(From the song “Look and Laugh”)
Since long time, I never write new tune,
Long time I never sing new song,
Long time I never write new tune,
Long time I never sing new song,
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never sing new song,
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never write new tune,
He talks the same way in interviews. The Nigerians I know in this country are highly educated and speak more or less proper American English, but the Pidgin part tends to permeate and come through on occasion.
I would have thought to be a Miss Environment, a nose ring, green hair, and a few tats would be obligatory. Thankfully they made an exception.
On a more serious note, that is an encouraging and, for me, timely quote.
Glad it is useful. I definitely smiled when I saw it. How often do we try every way other than with God?
The Torah teaches that our material success is determined at the beginning of each year, on Rosh Hashanah. You can work 10 hours a day or 5 hours a day during that year, but your final material gain for the year, when everything is taken into account, will be the same. Spiritual gain, on the other hand, has no limit.
Speaking of punctuation. We have a local person running for Board of Health. His campaign theme is to “get to the bottom” of the water issue in town. So, he is going to take over my board on the water committee? He has no water license and think he out ranks the DEP that we have been working closely with for years. I think I will take over his board. I’ve always wanted to do a restaurant inspection. They do use the water we provide.
I have to show you his Facebook response to my wife. She may have baited him a little bit. She’s great.
Do not try to read context, you will get sucked into the hole, just structure.
Now I know why they call it Meta-pause. Sorry, two jokes in one.
He’s a janitor?
That’s how I take it. I have never heard of the guy until he started mouthing off. He is running against someone else. Someone else has my vote.
A yellow dog, perhaps?
More people need to flunk English.
MAGA = Make America Godly Again
I wish that were true!