Word: dispela
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...Dispela Man Humbug." So eager were the natives to learn about democracy that word filtered over the bush telegraph that no electoral patrols would be attacked, "even with sticks and stones." In 12,000 villages and thousands of isolated hamlets, the teams used films to teach the natives voting techniques. To offset tribal boredom, lectures were interspersed with tape recordings of local "sing-sing" music. But presentations occasionally flopped. In one back-country village, natives complained that the voter shown on one of the election drawings was unknown to them. "Dispela man humbug mi no lookin dispela man wantain bepo...
...showing, the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council had voted to end the world drive. Rabaul's reporter went right on pleading the cause of the Yunaited Neisans Sing-out-Sorri. "Orait," he told his Melanesian neighbors, "nau is somting bilong yu. Sapos yu sorri long ol dispela pikinini na yu laik givim liklik moni bilong halivim ol, yu ken givim long kommitti bilong yu or biringim sitaret igo long Distrik officer long Kiap. Gudpela pasin olsem i noken haIt or lus long tingting bilong ol pipal long ol arapela peles, na olsem-oli ken save tingting wanem...
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