Jamaican manners & social customs

[churchgirl]

Re: Jamaican manners & social customs

Sarry Ms. P. It wasn't mi intenshan fi mek yuh lose yuhself. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Talkin dis and talkin dat Ms. P, mi memba mi granfawda tell mi seh when him was a bwoy, him fawda did a bade him inna di wash pan and it suh happen dat him 'win' inna di wata. Him seh him fawda bax him suh till him si wan blinky and tink a bout fartyleventeen. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

H.O. yuh right bout di whisling ting fi choo. Mi granfawda seh him did mek a mistake an bout him did a whisle b4 him fawda. All him know was dat him jawcawna and him fawda hand did really get fi know each adda. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Bwoy mi poor grandfawda. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[chickie]

Re: Jamaican manners & social customs

me coulda neva eva kissteeth mek me modda hear me she would bax me pon me mouth

[msportmore]

Re: Jamaican manners & social customs

One Custom:

Pickney go Sunday School a Sunday mawnin time...regardless of how ungodly di parents are and even if di parents dem nuh go church at all...pickney dem muss get up and go a Sunday School

[karen2271]

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one time mi madda call fi mi and mi ansa her (WHAT) she put som lik ina mi bakside, and tell mi sai she a no one a mi frend dem pan street mi no fi ansa her like dat, mi no even memba how shi ketch mi, mi sai (WHAT) next ting mi no shi pan mi. mi was about 4years old, to dis day mi no like wen people ansa mi like dat wen mi call dem honour thy mother and thy father

[DC]

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DWL~~~
My father was very overprotective and one day in a fit of anger mi goh tell him how mi tiad a him a peep peep cluck cluck behine everything mi doh mi want mi space(exact words)..mi faada saw red!!

Here's another:
-noh stan up a gate and chat to yu frens(especially if they are opposite sex). Bring dem inside and talk pon di vernadah. Mi used to think say a because mi faada want to hear whe wi a chat bout..

[Tiffony]

Re: Jamaican manners & social customs

Originally posted by Miss Portmore:
[qb]One Custom:

Pickney go Sunday School a Sunday mawnin time...regardless of how ungodly di parents are and even if di parents dem nuh go church at all...pickney dem muss get up and go a Sunday School[/qb]

Lawd disyah one yah tek di cake. Mi did haffi go weddah are nat hennybaddy esle go. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[Tropicana]

Re: Jamaican manners & social customs

Good evening everyone. Nice thread. Here are some more:

- no eating on the street (Bwoy yu so craven)
- no whistling in the house
- No singing at the table
- Remove your hat before you come indoors (bwoy dat one gone out lang time)
- Don't chat your personal business too much (Not everyting fit fe eat fit fe talk.)

There was something about not drinking and eating at the same time at the table but I don't remember it.

[babydoll]

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tek u elbow aff di table [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
don't speak until you have finished all you food.
Don't leave the table until u clean u plate (this was rough cause mi neva like food )
Kids should be seen and not heard

[grasshopper]

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nuh fi walk pon road an eat
nuh fi nyam an guweh
always address elders as Miss/Mrs./Mr. etall..
mus seh excuse or parden if yu belch or pass gas

[j-kid]

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Yuh noh fi laugh if smaddi crack ah fawt.

Yuh couldn't sey di word fawt around grown-up's, yuh had to say pass gas, break wind or ease yu body.

Yu not allowed to suck off yu fingers if food got on it, you had to always use a napkin.

Noh slurp yuh soup.

Noh suck di drinking glass fi di last drop.

Don't mek noise wid yuh mouth when yuh eating (close yuh mouth while chewing).

Don't pick yuh teeth around di dining table.

Always wash yu hands before yu cook, touch food or come tu di dining table.

Don't belch around the dinner table.

Never pick up food off di floor an eat it.