Traditional Jamaican proverb · taught in St. Elizabeth
Beli ful, pitieta hab kin.
Once the belly is full, the potato 'has skin'.
The satisfied become choosy and ungrateful — full people find fault with food.
two-clause parallelism, no linking word
The first half has no verb in it at all, and the second is a complaint dressed as a plain fact, since hab kin only lands if you know the habit.
This one is taught in St. Elizabeth.
The grammatical categories this description uses — clause type, mood, and the sound patterning noted where it carries the proverb — follow Unseth's framework for describing a proverb rather than only translating it.
The proverb is folk material. The description of how it is put together follows the framework in the work above; the translation and the commentary are mine.
Hear it, and collect the rest →