FIRST ®- A Jamaican Magazine | Peter Dean Rickards » patois bible http://www.first-magazine.net A Jamaican Magazine Fri, 14 May 2010 13:10:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Bible being translated into patois as debate rumbles on http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/07/bible-being-translated-into-patois-as-debate-rumbles-on/ http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/07/bible-being-translated-into-patois-as-debate-rumbles-on/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:04:38 +0000 First http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/07/03/bible-being-translated-into-patois-as-debate-rumbles-on/ We think it’s a little strange that despite the many challenges facing our education sector that some people want to take what is an oral tradition, Jamaican patois, and turn it into a written language. Translators are needed for the US$1 million project that could take 12 years to complete.

Read more (not yet in patois) HERE

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Source: Howard Campbell/Associated Press

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