http://www.metafilter.com/tags/parsley Posts tagged with 'parsley' at MetaFilter. Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:00:25 -0800 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:00:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/102160/Cannabis%2Dculture <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40riUnzYMjg">Cannabis Culture</a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.102160 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:00:25 -0800 420 a Acapulcogold ace african alaskan apocynum ashes aunt AveMaria backy bag baggie bales bamba bangue bc bhang blunt bo bobo bonghit boo bowl bricks broccoli bud buddha bush buzz cabbage cannabinum cannabis chief chronic columbian cryppie cryptonite culture dagga dank day delight devilweed diggy dirtweed ditch ditchweed dobie domestic don doob doobie dope draf draw durban fir flowers ganja gash gasper giggle gold gong gram grass green greenbud green-sticky grifa griffa happy hash hawaiian hay hemp herb high hocus homegrown hooch hooter hops humboltd indian indica intsangu j jane joint juan kenevir kif killer kilos leaf loco locoweed lucy marijuana mary maryjane MauiWowie mbanja method mexican mj mo moocah moota mooters mootie mor mountain nubs nuggets nuggies number of one-hit ounce owl panama PanamaRed parsley pocus poison pot pounds pr pretendica puff ragweed rainy rasta red reefer roach root rope sativa seeds shake shit shwag sinsemilla skunk smoke snop spliff stack stash stems stick stone swazi sweet tchene tea texas thai-bud thai-stick thestuff thrupence thumb thunderfuck tree trees turkish twig twigs untoque wadjugot wahupta weed whacktabacky whackyweed wheat wisdom woman wood yesca zol twoleftfeet http://www.metafilter.com/53639/How%2DDeadly%2DWas%2DMy%2DParsley <a href="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/shibboleth.html">Holding up sprigs of parsley, Trujillo's men queried their prospective victims: What is this thing called? The terrified victim's fate lay in his pronunciation of the answer.</a> Dominican dictator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo">Rafael Trujillo</a> spearheaded an <a href="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/antihaitianismo.html">anti-Haitian</a> massacre in which armed thugs killed every <a href="http://www.ahadonline.org/eLibrary/creoleconnection/Number20/haitiancreole.htm">Creole speaker</a> who couldn't <a href="http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/03/27/perejil-the-shibboleth-myth/">pronounce the trilled R</a> in the Spanish word for parsley. (Using pronunciation to make ethnic distinctions is called a <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/shibboleth.html">shibboleth</a>, a tactic often <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth#Shibboleths_used_in_war">used in wars</a>.) The murders inspired Edwige Danticat's <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0349111634/202-4270692-1100626?v=glance&n=266239">The Farming of Bones</a> and Mario Vargas Llosa's <a href="http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/vargas/fiestac.htm">Feast of the Goat</a>, as well as a <a href="http://www.starve.org/teaching/intro-poetry/parsley.html">poem</a> recited <a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dove/reading.htm">for Bill Clinton</a> by poet laureate <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1993/93-071.html">Rita Dove</a>. Ironically, Trujillo's desire to "whiten" Hispaniola not only led him to order <a href="http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/delta/dominican1937.htm">the 1937 massacre</a>, but to lobby in 1938 for <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sosua.html">the settlement of Jews fleeing Hitler</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53639 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:13:35 -0800 Creole Dominican DominicanRepublic Haiti linguistics literature massacre parsley poetry pronunciation RafaelTrujillo Trujillo jonp72