V tokratnji oddaji smo se pogovarjali o rastafarjanstvu, reggaeju, dubu in ostalem. Na kratko, z veliko glasbe.

Chevannes discussed the use of the most important aspect of Rastafarian talk, the personal pronoun, “I.”



"To the Rastafari this is the same as the Roman numeral 1, which follows

the name “Selassie.” “I” substitutes for “me” and for “mine.” The religious

meaning behind this substitution is that the Rastafari is also part of God,

and if God is a visible, living man, it must mean that the Rastafari is another Selassie, another “I.”Because everyone is an “I,” one does not say “we”

for plurality, but says “I and I.” As the most central word in the Rastafari

speech, “I” transforms other words as well. “Brethren” pronounced in the

dialect as “bredrin,” becomes “Idrin”;‘(eternal,’’“Iternal”;

“hour,” ‘‘Iowa)’;

“times,” “Iimes”; “creator,” “Ireator”; and so forth. (Raufari I67)"