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Nov 13, 2012

Day Ten: Someone You Don’t Talk To As Much As You’d Like To

Posted by Linguere | Tags: Linguere, Non-fiction, Apostrophe, English spelling, Linguistics, Massachusetts, messenger, Orthography, Punctuation | 0 Comments

 

Ya’Allah,

Five times each day, you call me into your presence to converse with you and pour my heart out. Who better to solve my problems and comfort my soul than you? When I talk, you always listen, urging me to go on for you’ve got all the time in the world. When I come to you, millions of other people like me are also in your presence. Yet, you listen to each one as if they were alone.

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Advertisements From an Alternate Universe (starring Yaayi Ministerr and Mass)

By Amran Gaye in Fiction, Rome, Mass MTL and Son, Mass MTL and Sons, Dara Mass, Haha, Human Interest, Kore, LAN, Massachusetts, Nyu, shopkeeper, Teye

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(scene: Yaayi Ministerr is in a Peul shop, standing behind a barrier and speaking to the shopkeeper) 
 
- Yow Pol bi joh ma nyaari sachet foe fu… (Mass enters) More kiidu Mass?
- Ah Yayi Ministerr. Yow lore feh ute?
- Haha! - kaaye ma wahla kore Mass. Mass ham nga luuye huss-band gorn.
- Yaayi Ministerr leralal ma - luuye horse-baand gorn?
- Huss-band gorn daal Mass MTL and Son nyore kore fi indi chi dayka bi. Laaj ma pour lan Mass?
- Pour lan Yaayi Ministerr?
- Nyu neh daal jigain nyi ku chi sa jaykarr gaytaynati…
- Gaytain bu mell naka Yaayi Ministerr.
- Lume mune di dorn Mass. Utal la wuja. (one finger up). Di jayfoe ak mbindaan bi. (two fingers). Banya feye sa school feesi hahleh yi.

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