Originally posted by Donnika:
[qb] no Dr Dudd. the term "chi chi bus" came about because the buses are seen as being of the patterson govt. and patterson is seen as a chi chi man. [/qb]
yuh wi duh anyting fe bunn a fyah pan pnp ee [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]
Originally posted by neochin:
[qb] the latest slang i can think of is "fish". i'll let you figure out what it means. [/qb]
does it have anything to do with females? [/qb]
no it has to do with jamaican hatreds of a certain group of people. [/qb]
so i guess we is not supposed to use the word fish pan here since it is derrogative even though it na have nothing to do with flounders? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]
Originally posted by SueSumba:
[qb] seems to me the language is constantly changing.
i never heard of "passa passa" before. but now i hear it all the time.
anymore new words/phrases you can think of? [/qb]
I agree,we in the Uk usually get a phrase quite awhile after it`s been established in Ja.
One of my brothers uses the phrase ambangle which I find very irritating.
And it was from another of my brothers I first heard the terms big up and flex.
When I was a boy I used to hear of a bird called a chi chi bud,but words like mampyscandal bag or gwaany gwaany are all new to me,as they originate during the last twenty or thirty years.
Originally posted by Shandra:
[qb] ...and remember "chi-chi bud...oh"
Some ah dem ah halla some ah bawl
Some ah cling -cling
Some ah dem ah halla, some ah bawl
Some ah gawling..
Wonder if those birds have some peculiar characteristics that parallel people's...? I never even thought of that back then. [/qb]
We used to sing that song at school,..........little knowing that we were singing about homosexual birds.
Originally posted by coolbeans*:
[qb]
it basically fi all di big belly people dem weh a wear half shirt and ting...dem have a cute song
mi caan memba di words just now [/qb]
I think it means getting in a temper,or losing your head,or how they would say they are "ignorant" instead of hot headed,or quick tempered.... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] .....Isnt Jamaica wonderful,you can call a man "ignorant" and he takes it as a compliment... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]
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