User talk:SisyphusOfTheMoors

Welcome, @SisyphusOfTheMoors.

Thanks for your contributions. Your addition of abeng was good to see. I also agree with you that pum pum should be the main form and not pum-pum. I added a few things as well. I hope to see more contributions from you in the Jamaican Creole section. It'd really make things easier. Have a great day. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 04:31, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

quote-book

Wah gwaan, Sisyphus.

You've been doing great work so far. I suspect you might be a Patwa speaker as well based on your contributions :-) Our language is a limited documentation language (LDL). Unlike other global languages like English or Spanish, we'll have to provide quotations to prove that our words exist (even though we know they do). Could you add quote-book to our JC entries when you make them. Here's an example from Babylon:

# {{lb|jam|slang}} [[cops]], [[police]] {{gloss|law enforcement organisation}}
#* {{quote-book|jam
|author=N. D. Williams · 1976
|isbn=9786131162244
|page=288
|passage=“Then she a-show I seh well right now she a-go call '''Babylon''' bwoy dem ofe carry I go gaol.”
|title=Ikael Torass
|translation=So she was explaining to me that she was about to call the '''police''' so that they'd take me to jail.
|year=1976
}}

I'd be really grateful if you could update abeng, pum pum, and tun up with quote-book citations. (There's also quote-journal, by the way.) You can go visit books.google.com to find books we can use for citations. If you don't, that's okay too. Eventually, I'll get around to adding them.

Big up yuhself, my Lord! -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 05:00, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Wiktionary entry layout

Hi, @SisyphusOfTheMoors.

When you get some time, by the way, I'd highly recommend that you read this document in its entirety: Wiktionary entry layout. Have a good one ;-) -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 18:57, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

@Dentonius Will do, copying formatting is a bit inefficient. Ciao SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 19:02, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

abuja

Hi @SisyphusOfTheMoors, How are you?

I checked Cassidy's dictionary and found abuja (“firefly”). I'll put in a citation in the morning when I get up. The term wasn't used were I come from so I was a bit skeptical. Keep up the good work. I enjoy seeing your contributions. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 23:09, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

@Dentonius I very much appreciate the praise. Here's to expanding the Patwa dictionary and creating a resource for people like myself to learn this fine language. Bless up -- SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 18:08, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

parishes in Jamaica

@SisyphusOfTheMoors, Weh yuh a seh, man? Yuh good?

Once again, please keep up the good work. I see your contributions and I can't help but think you're putting me to shame where Patwa is concerned. One thing though: I noticed that you wrote a few of the location entries like this: Saint Elizabeth Parish. Could you, by any chance, change the style to the one we typically use in Jamaica: the Parish of Saint Elizabeth (or the parish of Saint Elizabeth? (Same for the other parishes). To be honest we always write it abbreviated St. Elizabeth but, for dictionary purposes, the long form is probably better. It would also remove a lot of the red links. No big deal if you don't. I'll get around to it eventually.

Gwaan tek it easy. Wi wi link. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 09:20, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Dentonius Noted. I was going around in the English wiktionary adding the parishes and their appropriate capitals, and I will likely do more of that. Wikipedia in English uses the format "Saint Elizabeth Parish", but since that is incorrect I will certainly go back and change it. The Patwa Wikipedia pages also seems to use slightly different spelling than normal, at least from what I've seen so far. Also, if you haven't read my message in the Requested entries Talk page please do (I have a proposal on how to better organize certain categories like slang terms for money and pronouns).

Mi a flash out. Bless up an tek it easy mi bredren. -- SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 18:44, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@SisyphusOfTheMoors, mi reply long time. A true mi neva ping yuh. Mi tink yuh woulda een see it. Nuh watch dem people an' di "Jumiekan" spelling. Mi nuh know a wah dem a gwaan wid. But a nuh suh Yard man write Patwa. Dat a experiment. Yu zimmi? -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 18:49, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Dentonius Mi a coo pon di page an mi a pree yuh message. Wen mi a find a likkle time mi mek di ting. Mi wi si yuh. -- SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 19:05, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

jam.wiktionary.org -- come wi squat pan i'

@SisyphusOfTheMoors, weh yuh a seh bredren?

Yow, some a di "Jumiekan" man dem did a work pan jam.wiktionary. Look like dem run weh lef di work an' dem naw badda come back. Fram yesterday til tiday mi a do likkle wuk pon it. Mi cyaan do nuttn bout di Jumiekan man dem start page, "Mien Piej" <- lawd! X-( ... yet ... but mi a talk to some a di big man dem fi see if dem wi sort out a ting fi wi. Check out dis an' mek mi know wah yu tink:

• incubator:Wt/jam/Wikshianery:Start

Si wan entry yah weh mi jis done tiday:

• incubator:Wt/jam/anedda

How it stay? Nuff work lef' fi sort out. But if you, me, an' wan nex' man stay on and do di work fi a good likkle while (couple month), dem wi buss wi and sort out di domain proper fi wi. Wah yuh seh?

-- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 21:03, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

@Dentonius Blouse an skirt! Mi a go do likkle wuk pon di Patwa Wikshineri inna di morrows and mi mek di link dem wid di Ingglish Wikshineri --> one thing I would say is that we might want to call the language "Jumiekan Patwa" as not to confuse it with the French-based Antillean creoles. Bless up an tek it easy. -- SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 21:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

@SisyphusOfTheMoors, mi know weh yaw seh but if anyting an we did haffi mek people know a which Patwa wi a chat 'bout, me'd a seh "Jamaican Patwa". Da writing deh ("Jumiekan") a supn weh come een funny to me an' nuff nuff Jamaican. A nuh one style a writing weh mi waan use, yu zimmi? But yow, big up fi dat still. Mek wi go over deh an' sort out di ting proper. Fi real, dawg. Room deh deh fi everybody. But yow a nuff template haffi guh write. Di ting nuh sort out proper yet. Nuff nuff nuff nuff work, my yute. :-D -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 21:42, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

@SisyphusOfTheMoors! Weh yaw seh, man? Yuh deh pon vacation? Yow, check dis an' tell mi 'ow it stay, nuh? incubator:Wt/jam/leggo_beast Same wud deh yah suh a'ready. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 09:03, 31 October 2020 (UTC)