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Liberians are very perculiar people and you get to know them easily from their way of speaking, habits and behaviour.
In general, we are very friendly people and will always make you laugh and treat you as if you both have known each other
for years even if it is your first time meeting.
Below are some things that identify us Liberians and hope you understand them because the spellings are what we
refer to as Water-side English" or local pigent.
LIBERIAN NAME THAT TONE
Get 7 points for each of the following snippets of popular songs
in Liberia that you correctly identify by naming the song's title. In fact, the balance 2 points to get a 100 percent is your
"dash".... Laugh and Have Fun!!
1. "...since I joined the army of the lord...."
2. "...midst roaring stars and thunderstorms..."
3. "my mother,oh yes, she was a soldier.."
4. "The
angels look down and wonder..."
5. "...so lets just praise the lord,
left foot..."
6. "That's what the old people say, say, say..."
7. "...a little boy pick it up and put it in his pocket"
8. "...my auntie called me in and she said to me..."
9.
"With hearts and hands..."
10. "...number three put it there, oh no..."
11. "...when I dey cry my
mother go carry me, she go.."
12. "...let us keep it serene. It is the one and only home that we
have..."
13.
"...New York was filled with opportunity, California give me
Ozinga..."
14. "...whether that Grebo girl.."
Answers
1. Never Disappointed One Day
2. The Lone Star Forever
3. We
Are Soldiers in the Army
4. How I Got Over
5. We Are Traveling
6. Gwen Catch Crab (For
My Lover to Eat) Miatta Fahnbulleh
7. Train Train Drop It
8. I Was Passing By
9. The National
Anthem
10. Tu Tu Lay Tu Lay
11. Sweet Mother
12. Sweet Liberia
13. Coming
Home
14. That's My Choice
HERE ARE SOME NEW FEATURES WHICH IDENTIFY US AS POST WAR LIBERIANS.
1. IF YOU CONSIDER THE SOUND OF GUNSHOTS AS THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
2.IF YOU KNOW HOW TO TAKE COVER
3. IF YOU'VE USED
THE JJ AND LIBERTY NOTES
4, IF YOU'VE RECEIVED WESTERN UNION CONTROL
NUMBER FROM RELATIVES ABROAD WHILE YOU WERE GAPPING IN EXILE.
5.
IF YOU PREFER LIBERIAN GOLD TO PLATINIUM OR DIAMONDS
6.
IF YOUR DREAM IS TO TRAVEL TO THE STATES
7. IF YOU'VE SEEN
DEADBODIES IN THE STREETS.
8. IF YOU'VE WORN DOKAFLAG OR VISITED BEND-DOWN-BOUTIQUE
9. IF YOU CALL YOUR FRIENDS BAH...
10.IF YOUR PLAYNAME'S
JUNIORBOY,DADDYBOY/GIRL,TUTUGIRL,BABYSISTER
11. IF YOU KNOW THE
MEANING OF: JOE,IRON AND SLIPPER
TITTY,"HOW YOU READ??IT WICKED"
" I WILL CAUSE NOISE OH...BUT CAUSE NOISE NOW!!!" SCANSING,AVADAVI, GARAN, GANGAN,
SHATSHOOT,JANJU, GILLAH
'EXPLAIN IT OOH WITH YOUR ZIPPER MOUTH', 'XACLAY POINT'
For those of you who have been away long
here's a little tutorial:
A Joe
is a prostitue or hooker aka janju.
Scancing is the 419, tha
art of conning
Garan is a don or a conman
Gangan is high grade grumble, bear your G
Gapping is to be extremely broke, hungry and desperate
* You must be a pre-war Liberian if:
1. You
only know the first stanza of your national anthem
2. If you refer to the phrase hell of a, as hellabor
3.
If you eat Cassava and gravy for breakfast on saturday
4. If you give direction by land mark such as
the big plum tree
5. If you can take a cab across town for only fifty cents
6. If your TV
only has one channel
7. If you know what pumping tire is
8. If you know what kicking butt nahfo
is
9. If you wore that tight oriole pants for uniform
10. If giga got in you foot before
11.
You have played buffeh groun holit
12. If you had dumboy and it sat in your gut for weeks
13.
If cassava leaf and fever tea makes the best meal for lunch
14. If your former president got on TV and
curse the people ma
15. If you thought Malawala Balawala was a hit
16. If when you dance
you turn to look at your behind rocking
17. If you are cool with stopping a stranger for
a lift
18. If Kalah and pepper is the best when it comes to breakfast
19. If
all your parents friends are automatically your uncles and aunts
20. If all your trousers
are tailored
21. If you walked holding hands with friends of the same sex
22. If
you are willing to kill for rice
23. If apollo 13 means something else to you
24. If you
run towards the sound of gun firing, but away from the rain
25. If you still use the word
humbug
26. If you
say 'wha ha pin?'
27.
If your sister and her friends creates their own tongue(lingo)
28.
If you took pick pin as punishment
29.
If your teacher flog your butt with rattan
and used ruler to beat the tip of your fingers
30.
If you know 'soni-don, Gbe mon don yon' or
'pee pee pat jankoliko'
31.
If you call your parents names behind their
back
Acknowledgement to Mrs. Decontee C.Wallwitz-Brownell for her Contribution
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