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-- Informative, but i'd love to see some source or citation if possible. Of course, given the nature of subject mature - I appreciate this may be few a far between.
--Thanks to the user that corrected my entry saying the use of "Rome" was due to the 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia to saying it was "partly" due to the invasion. Of course, Rome is also referring to the oppression (downpression) of Rome in the Bible as well. (p.s. if the way I'm using this page is against general community standards, please let me know. Long-time page reader, but never contributed before. p.p.s. how does one become a user with an id?? and is there a link to general wikipedia etiquette?)... Rojo--
So, what does "itinually" mean? I remember hearing it on a Marley recording, but I can't piece the meaning together from this article. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:46, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Continually, SqueakBox 21:48, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
The following is the text from the "I&I" page which I've redirected to this page. The definition here seems complete already, but I don't feel it's my call to make. Ewlyahoocom 23:02, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
--- From a post on a rastafari web forum, the definition of I&I is as follows
"When I&I say, One love, we mean that there is only one love. The love between man & Ja, between man & man, between man & Iman, between man & woman, between man and all creatures of Ja, is but one and the same love. One cannot love part of Ja any more than he can love only some men and not others. Ja is all men and all men are Ja. Shalom Aleichem my brethren. Peace be with you."
The simple statement I&I is a statement that all people are one, hence, "One Love". ---
I don't recognise "I-pod" or "I-tunes" as current examples of Iyaric... could you please give some source for this new vocabulary? Or are you making them up yourself? Thanks ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Clearly a spoof from a new contributor, I think. In such cases always best to delete and ask for a source for its future inclusion, 04:14, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I'd personally "question" the legitimacy of "Bredren" on that list, since it's more just the "Jamaican" pronunciation of Brethren. Sherurcij (talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject) 18:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps also alm-a-gideon? -- Rabbitnuisance 08:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Sounds Spanish to me (alma is soul), SqueakBox 18:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Is this the same as I and I? -- User:SevenEightTwo
Is this not a fact? and not just something adherents of rastafari teachings believe in? That should be refrased. [re-phrased ]
The adherents of Rastafari teachings believe that their original African languages were stolen from them when they were taken into captivity as part of the slave trade, and that English is an imposed colonial language.
-- kuini86 17:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Do Rastas eat meat? I know many of them and none of them do. They are all vegetarians.
not all rastas are vegetarian they jus dont it pork but they do it chicken an what not —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.236.31.232 (talk) 14:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
An anon editor has challenged the definition of 'Red' which was defined as: Red means under the influence of cannabis due to reddening of the eyes being a side effect of being under the influence. His statement: Wrong. Red stands for the church and the blood i and i shed for jah.
The latter has the ring of truth. My only knowledge of the term is in the Black Uhuru album title. Any comments? Wwwhatsup (talk) 08:10, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
If I'm not wrong, "red" can be used in Jamaica to mean stoned, in reference to the eyes, but it's not a specifically Rasta term, so it isn't really needed here. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I take offense to this reference. As a former wearer of dreadlocks for 4 years, I washed them several times a week. This posed absolutely no challenge to creating them, even with me being a caucasian with relatively straight hair. I was asked continually why my hair didn't stink and have bugs in it. I tolerated it as run-of-the-mill cultural ignorance and explained that they were as clean as anyone else's hair : just very very tangled.
I will eat my offense if this page can be edited to clarify what the context of 'not washing' is. i.e do Rastas really believe it is necessary for their growth, or is there a spiritual/cultural/naturalistic reason for not washing.
Perhaps change 'are formed by simply not washing or combing your hair' to 'are formed by simply not combing your hair'. If there is a proscription against washing, let's state that separately.
Thanks!
216.41.24.3 (talk) 18:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)FormerHipsterDoofus
I don’t think this is a subjective statement. African slaves didn’t speak English, for the most part, when they were brought to Jamaica, and no African languages survive in Jamaica today. This is not a subjective feeling held by Rastas. My revision’s a little clunky, but I hope it’s an npov-enough rendition of an incontrovertible fact. —Wiki Wikardo 22:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
I was always wondering what bombaklaat (is that the right spelling?) means. Can't find no explanation anywhere... could u add it pls - I assume it's a rastafari word as it always appears in that context. lg Phil--82.194.99.206 (talk) 17:26, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
'In fact, "Mystery Babylon" needs a large write up here as "police" and "polytricksters" are on the extreme surface of what Rastafarians consider and know as "Mystery Bablyon". It goes far deeper on a Biblical level regarding lies about God than whats being talked about here. ' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.71.236.90 (talk) 17:54, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
A couple of thoughts that may be helpful in improving the article's focus and clarity:
Hi everyone, I am part of a university linguistics course and selected this page to be part of an assignment where we clean up Wikipedia articles to improve their citation quality. I would love to add some more information about the linguistic features of Iyaric beyond just vocabulary. I think it would be useful to discuss how Iyaric is distinct from other dialects, e.g., Jamaican English and Jamaican Patois, while also sharing some similarities with those dialects.
I have started to compile some academic sources for getting started on a section that includes a linguistic analysis of Iyaric so readers can understand it as a dialect that goes much deeper than a thesaurus-style word-swap system. Some of these links include information about other Jamaican dialects, but I thought they would be useful for comparing and contrasting it with other related dialects. If anyone feels strongly about this, please let me know! Here is some of my source material to contextualize some of the changes I'll be making in the coming weeks:
I have reverted the insertion of WP:UNDUE, WP:BIAS and WP:TE by blocked IP user as likely WP:SPA and WP:SOCK. Similar changes were made by this user to several related pages: Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Jamaicans, Bermuda, Black Bermudians, Cayman Islands, Coromantee, Jamaican Creole, Jamaican Maroon Creole, Mixed-race Caymanians, Tacky's Rebellion, Turks and Caicos Creole, Turks & Caicos, and many others.
Having compared the diffs to see if there was anything worth keeping, I have manually restored anything with RSes or which improved prose (if there was anything). Most changes were poorly sourced and added significant bias into the article, or simply removed existing information for no policy-based reason.
For transparency, I will post this on all affected pages. Lewisguile (talk) 18:29, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
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