Traditional Jamaican proverb · taught in St. Thomas and St. Mary
Taim langga dan ruop.
Time is longer than rope.
Be patient — time outlasts everything and settles every score.
verbless comparison
Three words and no verb at all, since Patois needs no is here, with an abstract noun on one side and a thing you can hold on the other.
This one is taught in St. Thomas and St. Mary.
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 →