Lecturer in Linguistics

and Academic Writing

Clive Forrester, PhD

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    Anansi an Manguus (Achilles and the Tortoise - Zeno's Paradox)
    Clive Forrester
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Anansi an Manguus (Achilles and the Tortoise - Zeno's Paradox)

    A version of the Achilles and the Tortoise Paradox written using Jamaican orthography.
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    Writing Ms. Lou Right: Language, Identity, and the Official Jamaican Orthography
    Clive Forrester
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 6 min

    Writing Ms. Lou Right: Language, Identity, and the Official Jamaican Orthography

    Ms. Lou’s style of writing Jamaican is treated by some as the gold standard for Jamaican orthography, but was she writing Jamaican "right?"
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    Mek Patwa Ofishal: A dat Ms. Lou wuda waahn
    Clive Forrester
    • Nov 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    Mek Patwa Ofishal: A dat Ms. Lou wuda waahn

    If you are a Jamaican citizen, anywhere in the world, sign the petition before December 14th to make the Jamaican language official.
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