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Musings from the Merse
Saturday, June 24, 2006
 
I have mentioned about the Yankee tinge to the Queen's English in these parts. Some of it is not so much American but off the wall, even when it is on the wall. I am still puzzled by the slogan(?) that is scrawled on the side of the former Communist Party HQ in Rainbow Street :

Potien it is good to be as a ceasre

It has baffled Hutton Think Tank Code breaking section even when using their new machine found recently in a skip which they have called Eminga. Ideas in invisible ink please on the frontof a post card to the usual dead letter box.

It rather lessens the impact of a health campaign (aimed presumably at locals) if the English translation is not spoton: At Second Circle you are greeted with a banner which reads (in much smaller letters than theArabic) BE Ware Drugs-later on atFirst Circle the warning is direr:

Drugs is certain slow SUCIDE
 
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