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A Jamaican accent just makes me smile (lemmy.world)
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[+] 78 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Informer You no say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man he says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down

    Police-a dem dey come and-a blow down me door One him come crawl through through my window So they put me in the back of the car at the station From that point on I reach my destination Where the destination reached was the East Detention Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom

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    [–] 114 points 11 months ago (14 children)

    TIL Jar Jar Binks wasn't some alien species. He was just Jamacian.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    til Jamaican has a special dialect that is kind of english

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Patois is a creole language whose vocabulary largely comes from English, and there's a gradient of dialects between Patois and Jamaican Standard English, but pure Patois is considered mutually unintelligible with Jamaican English and thus a separate language. Moreover:

    A 2007 survey by the Jamaican Language Unit found that 17.1 percent of the population were monolingual in Jamaican Standard English (JSE), 36.5 percent were monolingual in Patois, and 46.4 percent were bilingual, although earlier surveys had pointed to a greater degree of bilingualism (up to 90 percent).

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    To clarify, patois is a generic term, as is creole, and can apply to any non-standardized language and is not specific to any particular location or group or language. That's why it's called "Jamaican patois" in the screenshot.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Thanks. I know there are thousands of languages, but Jamaican is the only ‘patois’ I've encountered in wide discussion, so amn't used to differentiating. It seems also to be an umbrella term, whereas Jamaican Patois is actually a creole language.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    got it Thanks!! I really didn't know

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    ‘The Harder They Come’, a popular Jamaican film, was referred to as “the first English-language film shown in the US with subtitles” due to thick Patois used in it. So there's indeed pervasive confusion, but in the end Patois often just can't be understood by English-speakers.

    Fun fact: Patois developed starting in the seventeenth century, and mixes languages of West and Central Africa, used by the slaves, with British and Irish English and Scots, used by the slaveholders. Where Scots is itself a sister language of English, descended from Early Middle English.

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    • [–] 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    di copypastaWeh di fuck yuh jus fucking seh bout mi, yuh likkle bitch? Mi ago mek yuh know seh mi graduate top a mi class inna di Navy Seals, an mi did involve inna numerous secret raids pan Al-Quaeda, an mi have ova 300 confirmed kills. Mi get train inna gorilla warfare an mi a di top sniper inna di entire US armed forces. Yuh a nuh nutten to mi but jus anodda target. Mi ago wipe yuh di fuck out wid precision di likes a weh yuh neva si before pan dis Earth, mark mi fucking words. Yuh tink yuh can get weh wid seh dat deh shit to mi ova di Internet? Tingk agen, fucker. As wi a taak mi a contact mi secret network a spies across di USA an yuh IP a get trace rait now so yuh beta prepare fi di storm, maggot. Di storm weh wipe out di pathetic likkle ting weh yuh call yuh life. Yuh fucking dead, pikni. Mi can deh anyweh, anytime, an mi can kill yuh inna ova seven hundred ways, an dat is jus wid mi bare hands. Not only mi extensively trained inna unarmed combat, but mi have access to di entire arsenal a di United States Marine Corps an mi ago use it to it full extent fi wipe yuh miserable ass off di face a di continent, yuh likkle shit. If only yuh coulda know weh unholy retribution yuh likkle "clever" comment did bout fi bring dung pan yuh, maybe yuh woulda hold yuh fucking tongue. But yuh couldn't, yuh neva, an now yuh a pay di price, yuh goddamn idiot. Mi ago shit fury all ova yuh an yuh ago drown inna it. Yuh fucking dead, kiddo.

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    • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Try pidgin next

    https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    I've having a week and this is exactly what I needed. I'm now getting all my news from BBC Pidgin.

    English headline: Trump wants to pause migration from 'third-world countries'

    Pidgin headline: Who be di 'third world countries' Trump say im go permanently pause dia migration to US?

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    [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    "Me wan da poonani"

    • Steven Segal
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    [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    It is with great pleusre that I inform you this is real.

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    [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    Waahn ded

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    [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Daaaaay-oh!

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I do a Nigerian voice to help process my pain. But it doesn't work I keep doing it tho

    Now read it back how in de voyce

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Hawaiian Pidgin is also pretty damn funny. Look up "Da Jesus Book".

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Jamaican Inspector Man!

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    [–] -5 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    yeah that's just racism

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's called a creole language. An even simpler version is a pidgin language (there's an example posted in one of the comments). Creole is usually a more evolved pidgin. Developed by children of creole speakers.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    Yeah i had a really bad feeling about this post, it's an actual language spoken by actual people who have been historically discriminated against, not just "funny english"

    The reason creoles look like weird english sometimes is because they're the mixture of multiple languages

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    How is translating a sentence racism? Clutch your pearls harder

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    are you saying this to bait me or are you so obtuse as to think it's the translating part i have an issue with, and not the "haha look this language is so silly! 🤣 this is better than therapy! 🤣" part

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I agree it has a bad taste because of the historical power structure, but it’s honestly similar to this. Some languages just look funny to English speakers since they are partially mutually intelligible.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    i agree, and maybe in a better world it wouldn't be racist (it would still be glottophobic tho, but to what degree that is considered problematic depends tbf, "haha french sucks" jokes are glottophobia as well and that seems fine by most people)

    but we do not live in this better world where racial & colonial power structures are irrelevant, so making fun of Jamaican creole and Pidgin (as another commenter in this thread did...) is still fucking racist

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    • [–] -3 points 11 months ago* (14 children)

    Reducing another culture to a form of entertainment isn’t very nice.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    As I write this, your comment is the lowest rated in the thread and the highest rated comment is someone making the same point but quoting a comedian.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I also find that pretty interesting. What’s your take away from this?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    That the timeless eloquence of Wayne Brady abolishes all political and sociocultural differences.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The only timeless eloquence here is how some people have so little self-control that they cannot help but to incessantly criticizing others, regardless of how little their input is desired.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    He said, as he replied to everyone in the thread that he did not agree with.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    And so he also endured dozens of children, throwing tantrums, and his replied did not match their wishes.

    See, I can make shit up too. Something tells me that I will at last you. Also, something tells me that you throwing tantrums or only make your loss more severe.

    But please, take the time to approve me wrong. I enjoy a challenge…

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Clowns when you refuse to laugh at their culture

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    A convenient answer when you consider that clown culture is one of the few that is expressly designed to be laughed at. The other others are not.

    And this deflection hardly addresses the point I was making. It’s like saying “most things don’t like being on fire“ and your response is “what about matches?“

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    • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Same.

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