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Anthony Quinn punches a sailor in a scene from the 1965 film A High Wind In Jamaica. Sailors have a reputation for swearing but is this justified? 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images
There s good reason to believe that sailors have always slung salty language on the high seas. At least that was the impression of the Puritan preacher Cotton Mather, who wrote in a 1699 sermon, It has been an Observation, older than the Dayes of
Plato, That the
Sea is a School of Vice. Is not the Sin of profane Swearing and Cursing, become too notorious among our Sailors? Even the adjective salty, meaning crude language, originated in the late 1800s as a reference to the colorful culture and vocabulary of sailors.
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CYPRIAN Ekwensi’s fictional prose, Burning Grass, vividly x-rays the kings of the jungle. I am using the ‘Fulani’ here as the approximation of Nigeria’s far north – because he is the consequential being there. And, I think anyone who fights him or wants to fight him or is being fought by him should read the history of his assumed ancestors, the Hyksos (Shepherd Kings) of Egypt, and then read Ekwensi. The Burning Grass is an evocative exhibition of what disease and deceit, drought and decay and death do to shape the worldview of those who answer Nigeria. It is, more importantly, a character portrait of Nigeria’s owners of power. One of the major characters in that Ekwensi story boasts: “We are Fulanis, the sons of Dan Fodio, master magicians; we who fight like cats, who die a hundred deaths and live; we who test out manhood by the Sharro…We are men of cattle, our cattle come first and since it is our wish to take them to better pastures, all else must succ