Do Native Jamaicans Speak Non-English Languages?

u201cNative Jamaicansu201d donu2019t exist anymore because none of us in this island are originally from here. We came from at least six African tribes, China, India mostly from East India, Spain, Portugal, Britain, Ireland, Scotland. The Arawak or Taino Indians, who were the first Jamaicans , therefore natives, died out because of Spanish Colonial slavery and diseases introduced to them.

There are no native Jamaicans in existence now, the Arawaks named Jamaica u201cXaymacau201d meaning u201cland of wood and wateru201d and then the Spanish translated it to u201cJamaicau201d.Currently most Jamaicans, mostly descendants of Africans therefore black, make up 90% of the population and we speak a a mix of 6 African u201ctribal languagesu201d NOT DIALECTS, a few Spanish words and some English. This mix created the Jamaican Patois which was created by the black population and now is spoken by everybody and understood by everybody in Jamaica.

English is not our mother tongue, Patois is. English is the official language which we are taught in school. I can write English very well because I was taught in school and I speak English mostly when I meet foreigners.

I speak Patois almost 100% of the time. Some Jamaicans in the tourist industry can speak basic Spanish, French, German and some are learning to speak Mandarin. The non-English Languages are spoken only for the purposes of communicating with tourists whenever it is necessary in the tourist resorts around the island

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Why does Electric Light Orchestra sound so good?

Thatu2019s a leading question. It assumes the answer is a given.Personally, I am quite a fan of ELO, certainly from their early-to-mid period, up until u201cOut Of The Blueu201d, though I wasnu2019t so keen on their later stuff - they seemed to lose their rock edge a bit by then.

Iu2019m not a big fan of u201cDiscoveryu201d and later, even though that was their biggest selling album.I guess what makes them a good band is that, like most musicians that became well-known in the 1970s, they were actually musicians. They had to work hard to build a following, doing the hard yards by touring, growing their fan base, making studio albums and releasing singles.

That was the key to success back then - there were few shortcuts. Unlike today where a mogul will take you because you look good, turn you into a boy band, and market the hell out of you, while session musicians paper over all the cracks in your performances. In terms of their sound, ELO used a lot of classical instruments along with the guitar rock standards, such as violin and cello, woodwinds, etc.

They were also early users of electronic instruments such as the vocoder and Moog, and effects such as phasing. Itu2019s hard to pin down the exact reason for their sound, but it is instantly recognisable. ELO had been around since the 60s, originally as The Move, and were very much influenced by The Beatles use of classical and other unusual instrumentation.

That plus good songwriting - whatu2019s not to like?

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Is it fine for a boy to wear his momu2019s thongs or panties?

It is totally ok.

Kids going through puberty are curious. It is a natural thing for a boy going through puberty to want to try on his moms or sister underwear, pantyhose, bras or clothing. Where the line should be drawn, or where their curiosity should be really stopped is when they are sniffing or licking panties.

There could be something wrong, as gross as it is and sounds, it could still be curiosity, but it is pushing the line with that kind of activity. Boys trying on moms or sisters panties, should also be talked about, but not in a way that makes them feel like you are mad, and that it is wrong. The uncomfert that comes along with those talks is a given, they will be embarrassed and uncomfortable.

But they should know that it is ok to try, it is ok the experiment, it is ok if they find that they like and want to wear those things. My sons will have to wear them only at home until they are 18 and out of grade school though if that is the case.Either way it is normal and natural and ok.

Talk to him and see if he wants to wear panties and then buy some of his own if he wants to wear them. Really, clothes are clothes. Except for P.

E. no one is really going to see what undies he has on. This is assuming that he wants to start wearing panties of course

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What would you do if you were indefinitely stuck back in time, during the cave man era?

Find my own cave and hide in it, probably. I would not be particularly interested in rushing out to meet my neighbors. I wouldnu2019t trust them, and I doubt they would find me very interesting or useful, unless I had come very well-prepared with some amazing technology like pots and pans, metal axes, and so forth.

Even then, I would expect they might be more interested in taking those items, and using them to cook and eat me. No thank you!Eventually, it is possible I might get myself into the position of a tribe shaman, after I learned a bit of their language and was able to show them some of my unusual skills, whatever those are.

I could make musical instruments and play modern jazz. I have no idea how they would react to that. I could show them how to make paint and use it to decorate their caves to attract cave women.

I could show them how to use seeds to grow things. Yipeee! I just invented agriculture!

I imagine it wouldnu2019t be too difficult to build a kiln, and teach them how to bake pottery and maybe even bricks! Then, I might be able to tame some animals. Maybe I could even teach them how to ride horses!

There is one important thing Iu2019m pretty sure I could do: Invent the wheel! Iu2019ve been accused of reinventing the wheel, but back then, there would be nobody to tell me that. Ha!

Meanwhile, remembering that my stay is indefinite, I would keep going to sleep, hoping against hope, that I would wake up and discover that it was all a very strange dream.

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What name is given to a person who believes that the existence of God can be neither proved or disproved?

The proper term describing such a person is an atheist.

A u201ctheistu201d is a person who believes in the existence of a god who is both transcendentu2026. that is, that he (or He) is timeless, and incorporeal (existing beyond the physical world), and immanent, that is that he mingles in the physical world, communicates with his followers, enjoys watching football games on the weekends, has favorite teams whom he sometimes helps to win, occasionally diverts hurricanes from making landfall, and who likes the smell of roasting meat. And many evangelical Christians feel sure Heu2019s a Republican.

nThe prefix u201ca-u201c means non- or not. Thus, an atheist rejects the notion of such a god as u201cunprovedu201d, unless clear evidence were to be provided. In the case of a transcendent god, such evidence would be impossible to provide and for an immanent god, the currently available evidence is purely circumstantial, or hearsay, in either case unacceptable in a court of law.

nThe existence of God in either manifestation cannot be strictly disproved, and as such, resides in the same ontological domain as Russellu2019s Teapot, in outer space, somewhere between the orbits of Earth and Mars. (Russell would place the burden of proof on the person making the positive claim, not the negative claim. nSome atheists go further and claim the the absence of evidence for God is in itself evidence of absence, but most reasonably minded atheists would disagree.

Their enquiring minds remain open to the possibility of God, pending the provision of evidence. Matt Dillahunty is an atheist in this manner.

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What language is similar to C but easier to learn?

A language that is similar to C in terms of power and speed is Eiffel. In fact, many of the advanced features in Eiffel were adopted by C, like multiple inheritance and generics (templates). But Eiffel did these in a neat and elegant fashion C was tethered to C (with Cs own problems).

For application programming (lets say programming above OS level), C is the wrong approach. C at least attempted to make C better by adding types and some correctness checking. But still does not go far enough.

And then there is security ah, yes security. Eiffel is a very sophisticated language. C is just a big language.

While some of the things in Eiffel are difficult to learn, it is because there is an essential complexity to them like multiple inheritance and generics. You need to understand the principles behind these. You need to understand the principles behind Design by Contract.

It helps to understand the software development process and how Eiffel has this built in.A similarity of Eiffel to C is speed it is a compiled language.Another recommendation is Smalltalk another very sophisticated, yet simple language.

Again the language mostly does not get in the way it is the programming principles behind it that are essentially hard to learn.C however, tries to crack nuts with a sledgehammer. It is not subtle and introduces accidental complexity that is complexity that is part of the solution, not intrinsically part of the problem.

Here are some resources:Touch of Classhttp://se.ethz.ch/meyer/down/touch/TOUCH.

pdfTouch of Class MOOCIntroduction to Programming, the ETH cloud courseTouch of Class Archives - Bertrand Meyer's technology blogSqueakSqueak from the very start - YouTubePharoPharo - Welcome to Pharo!

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Which language should I learn after C?

Its based on your preferences.

There are couple of options and their description in terms of c problemsJava languageHas memory safety, automatic memory management and no pointers at allPortable across multiple platforms (OS)Lot of libraries already built along with your C containersSolved diamond problem in CProvides reflectionHas generics (templates) supportUnderlying JVM is so mature that, there are lot of compilers which compiles languages like ECMA script to JVM byte codeHas performance overhead(slower than) around 35X compared to C.GolangBetter memory safety, automatic memory management and no pointer arithematicPortable across multiple platforms (OS)Based containers have been already built in golangSolved diamond problem in CProvides go-routines, which are around 4000 times light weight than java threads.Provides solutions to race conditions through channels (CSP)Has performance overhead(slower than) around 1.

5X compared to C. RustHas memory safety, automatic memory management without gc overhead, so it has predictable performance in production.Portable across multiple platforms (OS)Threads without data racesSolved diamond problem in CPerformance is comparable to CHas generics (templates) supportHas no performance overhead(slower than) compared to CJavascript and NodejsHas memory safety, automatic memory management and no pointers at allPortable across multiple platforms (OS)Lot of libraries already built along with your C containersSolved diamond problem in C with prototypingFunctional paradigm and interpreted languageOne of the most popular and has good demand in market.

Can be used in backend, frontend and even in mobile apps (there are some tools which converts given javascript code to Android/iPhone app).