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A proverb is a short, memorable, and often highly condensed saying embodying especially with bold imagery, some common place fact of experience. A riddle is a question, puzzle or verse so phrased that ingenuity is required for elucidation of the answer or meaning; conundrum. Proverbs how did they get here?. Well with the case of Jamaica it was inevitable due to acculturation. Frederic G. Cassidy seems to agree that when people from different backgrounds (as it relates to language and culture) come together a new language will eventually form. He also states that the Jamaican language is unlikely to have been influenced by the Tainos (Arawaks) because they had been exterminated by the Spaniards long before the English came in 1655; and if some of them had survived and intermingled with the Negro slaves they would not have survived the conditions of the Spaniards.

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