Should Patois be the official ja language?

[Jazz]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by Jazz:
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Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by Jazz:
[qb] Makka - please mi ah beg yuh wan likkle fayva...

yuh cyan change yu avatar please???

yuh ah canfuse mi - every time mi si de pickcha mi ah seh to miself
"but stap mi nuh memba poas dat - ah wen mi poas dat?" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

Den mi look pan de name an realize seh ah nuh mi [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [/qb]

Mi change it...but mi nuh know bout di dettal ting. Wah yu tink? [/qb]

nah - I think you have anice personality and dettol nuh represent that... [/qb]

Mi did a tink seh if Makka juk yuh den yuh haffi put dettal pan it. But mite be rite, it nuh fit mi personality ahtall ahtall. [/qb]

ah true dat still - dettoll kill hall germs... yuh cuolda put up wan bakkle ah gentian violet to - casue nuh dat dem use pan cut ah yawd [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[Mahkka]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by Jazz:
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Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by Jazz:
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Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by Jazz:
[qb] Makka - please mi ah beg yuh wan likkle fayva...

yuh cyan change yu avatar please???

yuh ah canfuse mi - every time mi si de pickcha mi ah seh to miself
"but stap mi nuh memba poas dat - ah wen mi poas dat?" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

Den mi look pan de name an realize seh ah nuh mi [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [/qb]

Mi change it...but mi nuh know bout di dettal ting. Wah yu tink? [/qb]

nah - I think you have anice personality and dettol nuh represent that... [/qb]

Mi did a tink seh if Makka juk yuh den yuh haffi put dettal pan it. But mite be rite, it nuh fit mi personality ahtall ahtall. [/qb]

ah true dat still - dettoll kill hall germs... yuh cuolda put up wan bakkle ah gentian violet to - casue nuh dat dem use pan cut ah yawd [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [/qb]

No sah!!! ax anybaddy if you want kill anyting yuh haffi use a ting name "jaze"

[Q3210]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

...an eff yu waan kill English, use patwa. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[esp]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

waieeeee mi belley.
[img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

***jus a imagine PJ a talk to international government officials ina patois*** [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[draino]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by alpha:
[qb] draino. ansa mi. [/qb]

read your pm. i've included contact information.

[draino]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

this is no different than the boers' recognition of afrikaans as "official."

[Mahkka]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by draino:
[qb] this is no different than the boers' recognition of afrikaans as "official." [/qb]

See it deh!!! Tell dem, tell dem. Afrikaans ah di same to Sout Africa like patwa is to ja. But official recagnishan bring di entire papilashan inha di soshal discourse. Ongle den will we be "one people outta many"

[babydoll]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

if patois became the "official" language of ja den mi couldn't go back deh.. mi cyaan write it or speak di darn thing. my vote is NO

[Mahkka]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by Ms. Powell:
[qb] waieeeee mi belley.
[img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

***jus a imagine PJ a talk to international government officials ina patois*** [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [/qb]

Dear Ms. Powell maam. I can ear ouwa beloved PM address'n the united nations eloquently in fluent an flawless patwa. Wi all ah di eds ah nashans nodding in approval of every word...while whispering to each other, "What did he say?" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] . Nutt'n nuh rhong wid dat. Kissenger did it all the time. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[babydoll]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by draino:
[qb] this is no different than the boers' recognition of afrikaans as "official." [/qb]

See it deh!!! Tell dem, tell dem. Afrikaans ah di same to Sout Africa like patwa is to ja. But official recagnishan bring di entire papilashan inha di soshal discourse. Ongle den will we be "one people outta many" [/qb]

mi nuh think it is the same as afrikaans... no sah mi cyaan memba but mi nuh feel like look anything up now. Maybe you should do some research on the origin of "Afrikaans"...seen.

[draino]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by babydoll:
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Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by draino:
[qb] this is no different than the boers' recognition of afrikaans as "official." [/qb]

See it deh!!! Tell dem, tell dem. Afrikaans ah di same to Sout Africa like patwa is to ja. But official recagnishan bring di entire papilashan inha di soshal discourse. Ongle den will we be "one people outta many" [/qb]

mi nuh think it is the same as afrikaans... no sah mi cyaan memba but mi nuh feel like look anything up now. Maybe you should do some research on the origin of "Afrikaans"...seen. [/qb]

you do the research and come back later and tell me what you think.

[babydoll]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by draino:
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Originally posted by babydoll:
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Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by draino:
[qb] this is no different than the boers' recognition of afrikaans as "official." [/qb]

See it deh!!! Tell dem, tell dem. Afrikaans ah di same to Sout Africa like patwa is to ja. But official recagnishan bring di entire papilashan inha di soshal discourse. Ongle den will we be "one people outta many" [/qb]

mi nuh think it is the same as afrikaans... no sah mi cyaan memba but mi nuh feel like look anything up now. Maybe you should do some research on the origin of "Afrikaans"...seen. [/qb]

you do the research and come back later and tell me what you think. [/qb]

mi nuh have time fi dat.. but the other day on NPR they were saying that the government forced the language on the people. One day the kids were forced to use this language they did not know or speak. This resulted in a big protest. It was on that day, the military opened fire on the children in South Africa, killing more than a doze and injuring several hundred children.... no it is not the same as patois.

[alpha]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by babydoll:
[qb] the military opened fire on the children in South Africa, killing more than a doze and injuring several hundred children.... no it is not the same as patois. [/qb]

Mi havin a serious visual here seein Reneto Adams an im people dem a "bum-up" di whole a wi cause wi naw talk di right language. I am dyin over here!!!!! woooiiieeee! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[Mahkka]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by draino:
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Originally posted by babydoll:
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Originally posted by Mahkka:
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Originally posted by draino:
[qb] this is no different than the boers' recognition of afrikaans as "official." [/qb]

See it deh!!! Tell dem, tell dem. Afrikaans ah di same to Sout Africa like patwa is to ja. But official recagnishan bring di entire papilashan inha di soshal discourse. Ongle den will we be "one people outta many" [/qb]

mi nuh think it is the same as afrikaans... no sah mi cyaan memba but mi nuh feel like look anything up now. Maybe you should do some research on the origin of "Afrikaans"...seen. [/qb]

you do the research and come back later and tell me what you think. [/qb]

Di similarity is dat it started out as a dialect put togeddah like season rice. German, Dutch, African and indentured Malayan...dem use to call it "African Dutch". Juss like patwa is "Jamaican English"--a blend of English, English Cockney, Scottish, African,and di kitchen sink . Iz really the push for self-determination and identity of a people dat transformed the dialect into a "language".

[babydoll]

Re: Should Patois be the official ja language?

Originally posted by alpha:
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Originally posted by babydoll:
[qb] the military opened fire on the children in South Africa, killing more than a doze and injuring several hundred children.... no it is not the same as patois. [/qb]

Mi havin a serious visual here seein Reneto Adams an im people dem a "bum-up" di whole a wi cause wi naw talk di right language. I am dyin over here!!!!! woooiiieeee! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [/qb]

the kids protested.

I don't think in ja that would happen but jamaicans like patois, the south africans did not like Afrikaans. We as jamaians love to speak it or try to but to be an official language -- I dont think that would work. I don't live there and haven't live there in years but I do know that even growing up my family did not care for the language.