The Pacific Marine Industrial Zone Revisited – With a Vengence!
It seems as if the first hint of the “sabotage” mentioned in Mr. Pete Celso’s Power Point presentation promoting the The Pacific Marine Industrial Zone has already raised its vengeful head. If this seems mysterious, check my post The Pacific Marine Industrial Zone – Who Decided?”
On our drive up to Blueblood on Sunday, it was impossible to avoid notice of some fairly strong protest, presumably from land owner groups who resent the lack of consultation:
I hope that I have sufficiently blurred the expletives. The sign reads:
Line 1: [naughty word] PMIZ
Line 2: [naughty word] OFF KONGKONG
Line 3: [naughty word] OFF
Line 4: LAIKIM LUSIM GRAUN BLO MIPELA
For those who do not understand Tok Pisin, let me (roughly) translate:
Line 1: [naughty word] PMIZ
Line 2: [naughty word] OFF ORIENTALS
Line 3: [naughty word] OFF
Line 4: Literally: Like ground of us. (I think it refers to those who are greedy for their ground, but it might mean “We love our ground.”) Go away from the ground of us. (Get off of our ground!) [Thanks to Walkdan for this correction. Somehow, both I and our Receptionist, a native Tok Pisin speaker, managed to misread what was on the sign. It makes much more sense with Wakldan's correction. See the comments below.]
I can’t read the bit on the left of the sign, but I’m sure it’s not complimentary.
I know little for certain. The older I get, the less I’m certain about anything. I am pretty certain, however, that we’ve not heard the last of this matter.
No, I’m not grumpy today. I got this nice sunrise panorama this morning:
After seeing that, it will be at least noon before I’m grumpy.
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Line 4 reads in Pidgin as “Lusim Graun Blo Mipla” and not “Laikim…” “Lusim” in Pidgin means “Leave it”. So in English line 4 means: “Leave our land alone”
Thanks very much for that, Walkdan. I had our receptionist, a native Tok Pisin speaker help me with the sign and we both saw it as LAIKIM. It’s obvious now, since you’ve pointed it out, that we misread it.
Now it makes much more sense. Thanks for taking the time to correct our mistake. I’ll make a change in the post.
MadDog
Leave ground belonging to us, or ‘get off our land.’
Thanks, Lindsay. You’re right, of course. I’ve had a few comments already on my misreading of the sign. It looked like LAIKIM not LUSIM for some reason. Made little sense to me then, but all is clear now.
Tenkyu tru. Nau mi klia.