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i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa)
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i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.
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you're from that age group/social class where it was verboten to speak patwa?Comment
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so you confession is that you is high class???
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div>
that's ok....don't feel a way. Neither could nite nurse.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.
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strickly brown stew?Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you're from that age group/social class where it was verboten to speak patwa? </div></div>
I was thinking the other day about the first correction my father gave to me.
'Na say um, say it'
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div>
at least I had to come to america to learn patois
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mi learn it in mi sista patty shop )
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div> That must be kind a common. finny thing was that they never forbade me from speaking it,but nobody at home,and veryfew in my ummudiate circle spoke it fluently. But the problem I jave is that Americans have not been able to recognize my accent. some refuse to believe that I am jamaican. that some tomes unclude Jamaicans though.
until I prove that I know more wbout jamaica than them.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.
</div></div>you should qualify that wid "even doah yuh bawn and grow a Jamaica"When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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I not confessing, just stating a fact...I don't have any kind of accent
I speak TV/radio
and when I went to Andrews they shamed the patwa right outta mi
damn those stuck up Kingstonian
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div>
I bet you do.. there is no single patwa.. there is degrees of patwa....depending ong social class...Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I not confessing, just stating a fact...I don't have any kind of accent I speak TV/radio
and when I went to Andrews they shamed the patwa right outta mi damn those stuck up Kingstonian </div></div>
LIES! this kingstonian is a patwa specialist
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.
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strickly brown stew? </div></div>
is just so much brown stew me can eat too
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div> That must be kind a common. finny thing was that they never forbade me from speaking it,but nobody at home,and veryfew in my ummudiate circle spoke it fluently. But the problem I jave is that Americans have not been able to recognize my accent. some refuse to believe that I am jamaican. that some tomes unclude Jamaicans though.
until I prove that I know more wbout jamaica than them. </div></div>
Added to which yu granfada had a servant philosphy!Comment
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