Kale- Excerpt: The F & B of their Time.

Kale- Excerpt:  The F & B of their Time.

Picture from Jeff’s Journey  blog

I am Kale by default and not by choice for a good reason beyond my own reasoning. In order to understand the writings below you should be aware of the natural placement and to treat the content as lessons from years of experience. Our parents then days had their own swag of F and B to reprimand or respond to a child’s behavior. As opposed to the F and the B of today, words were more of emotional and metaphorical in nature. Take a look at this line Mokergei ak lagokab Koin, in simple reasoning  it means other children are doing better. When you place the words in the context, you won’t find those children that are better than you nor the house they were referring to. Functions remains the same but the terminologies have changed and recently cursing and abusing is restricted to -below the belly button and above the knees.

Koseng’engit is one of the strongest confronting word spoken by upset parents to their children, it only works when stressed and with a high tone.  Kiseng’eng in its relevance only and only means to open your mouth as in to instill sublingual or under the tongue medication. There are some rare instances in which the word might mean otherwise: for instance when some folks happen to sleep while seated in a chair and their mouth is wide open, that would mean Kiseng’eng. Derogatively the term can also change meaning if applied to a child that has been crying for long time. Parents or any elder person will shut them up by saying Mete Kaseng’enget. Same term can also be applied when kid repeatedly keep losing some items or belongings especially if they were send to bring, they will they will them kiamwa ale ii koseng’engit or rather kepiseng’enge is?

Kwong’ot is another word with is roots from the term kekwong which simply refers to wonder, it is not really a bad word, but the application to certain circumstances makes it very abusive. Derogatively the word is used to refer to someone who instead of critically thinking about a situation they just stare and therefore it applies to recurrent and continued wonderings. It applies to a situation in which one cannot think and everything that they see doesn’t make sense to them and therefore they are affected by kwong’et and that you’re kwong’ot. Kwong’ot in the sense that you cannot make quick and conclusive decisions in what you see or do. This behavior can only be reprimanded by kemeto kwong’otet (leave wondering). To leave does not and should not mean to stop, but to leave Kwong’otet is significant to the attached portability of the word.

Abusan is synonymous to the word dumb, it is one of the Kale words that is oftenly used while referring to Kids misunderstanding of purpose and use. The context in which this word is occasionally applied is when a kid does not or he/she does not reason on certain things. Let say a kid climbs a tree and in the event falls, tears clothes or losses teeth, they will refer to them as being abusan, and that is the result of abusanatet, it won’t matter the damage because the kid has always been  abusan and he/she needs to stop the abusnatet. Repeated reference to Abusnatet can be a very demoralizing representation because a kid will otherwise perceive this as a disability and will grow knowing that he is abusan.

Chepiywet is another common word, with reasons not known, Chebiywet is common and not Kipiywet. Kip refers to men and Chep refers to a woman and the word is derived from iywek which refers to madness locally and in Psychology it is categorized Mental illness. This word is applied in behaviors that are happening shortly and are not physiological in nature. In order to understand the description of the same, consider this scenario:  a kid that jumps from place to place or desk to desk has a lot of iywek. The term can be quantified at times when a kid is very hyper and they will refer to chang (many) iywek. In my on view, Iywek is synonymous to Attention Deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) but the remedies differ. Iywek in Kales Kids is often treated with corporal punishments and more so canning which has demonstrated to be effective.

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