potoooooooo ✅️A Jamaican accent just makes me smile
Lost_My_MindTIL Jar Jar Binks wasn’t some alien species. He was just Jamacian.
MissJinxPatois 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).
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.
AllNewTypeFaceDon’t they spell the specific Jamaican language “Patwa”, to differentiate it from the idea of a patois in general?
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.
‘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.
A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.
TropicalDingdongWaahn ded
Try pidgin next
Domot - BBC News Pidgin
We dey give una latest tori on top politics, environment, business, sports, entertainment, health, fashion and all di oda things wey dey happen for West and Central Africa come add di rest of di world join. For better informate plus explanation of all di ogbonge tori wey pipo never hear about for inside West and Central Africa, BBC Pidgin dey serve am with video, audio, maps and oda graphics join.
SoleInvictusI’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?
Clowns when you refuse to laugh at their culture
WhiteOakBayouAs 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.
That the timeless eloquence of Wayne Brady abolishes all political and sociocultural differences.
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.
Ecco the dolphinHe said, as he replied to everyone in the thread that he did not agree with.
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…
Nice? No. Entertaining? … … Ok yeah it is.
Chloé 🥕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
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.
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
Found a racist who doesn’t want to look inward and think a dialect existing is racist because it sounds silly to them.
Crybb
KSP AtlasIt’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.
The post is mocking a language, not the people who speak it. It may be in poor taste, but its not racist.
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Mi nah di sharpest tool inna di shed
She did a look kinda dumb wid har finger an har thumb
Inna di shape a one “L” pon har forehead
Well, di years start come an dem nuh stop come
Fed to di rules an mi hit di ground runnin’
Nuh make sense fi live without fun
Yuh brain get smart, but yuh head get dumb
So much fi do, so much fi see
So, wah wrong wid takin’ di backstreets?
Yuh wi never know if yuh nuh go (go)
Yuh wi never shine if yuh nuh glow
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin’ stars break di mold
It a cool place, an dem seh it get colder
Yuh bundle up now, wait ‘til yuh get older
But di meteor men beg fi differ
Judgin’ by di hole in di satellite picture
Di ice we skate a gettin’ pretty thin
Di water a get warm, so yuh might as well swim
Mi world a blaze, how ‘bout yours?
Dat’s di way mi like it, an mi wi never get bored
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(All dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin’ stars break di mold
Go fi di moon
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Go, go, go, go fi di moon
Go, go, go fi di moon
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin’ stars
Somebody once ask, “Could mi spare some change fi gas?
Mi need fi get miself away from dis place”
Mi seh, “Yep, wah a concept, mi could use a likkle fuel miself
An we could all use a likkle change”
Well, di years start come an dem nuh stop come
Fed to di rules an mi hit di ground runnin’
Nuh make sense fi live without fun
Yuh brain get smart, but yuh head get dumb
So much fi do, so much fi see
So, wah wrong wid takin’ di backstreets?
Yuh wi never know if yuh nuh go (go)
Yuh wi never shine if yuh nuh glow
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin’ stars break di mold
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin’ stars break di mold
ArxCyberwolfDK West is Malaysian, not Jamaican. The resemblance is still there though lol
BossDjInformer
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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Random_Character_AI’m not even a native speaker and it still works.
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
Default_Defect“Me wan da poonani"
- Steven Segal
- Steven Segal
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