The Bad Jamaican Accents Thread

[CeaBee]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Speak in the present tense even when referring to the past.</div></div>

[RichD]

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the best advice form that link:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Use the accent sparingly.</span> If you're visiting, trying to speak with a Jamaican accent is going to label you with a big fat &quot;T&quot; for tourist. Start with the basic words until you've been around the culture long enough to be taken seriously.</div></div>

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CeaBee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Speak in the present tense even when referring to the past.</div></div>



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[Wendy]

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Brad Pitt's Jamaican accent in <span style="font-weight: bold">Meet Joe Black</span>.

[Derek]

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I just read that saying <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">beer can</span></span> in a british accent sound like <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">bacon</span></span> said in a jamaican accent. I don't really know what a jamaican accent sounds like, but does a bacon in jamaican sound like bee-a-kaa-n? I really can't imagine how it could sound like that, it's' a completely different word lol.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091107211541AAefLTP

Hegg an beer can!

[RichD]

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i think they got it right

[julie*mango]

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almost every depiction of a Jamaican in movies is bad....most recently, the Jamaican girl in Precious. Whoopi in that movie where she was a maid....Cool Runnings cast

the only good Jamaican accents were those of REAL yardies..lol! Like the guy from Third World Cop and Shottas ...Paul Campbell...he was in First Sunday with Ice Cube and Tracey Morgan

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wendilina</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Brad Pitt's Jamaican accent in <span style="font-weight: bold">Meet Joe Black</span>. </div></div>


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[Wendy]

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Tenk Yuh J_Yout..what a God awful accent!

[mountaingal]

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surprise nobaddy mentioned how stella got her groove back. as i like to say, guy spoke like he recently had a stroke. drawl out di lickle bit a accent.

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">How to Speak With a Jamaican Accent</span>

Drop consonants. Words like &quot;last&quot;, &quot;left&quot;, &quot;slept&quot; and &quot;hand&quot; become &quot;las&quot;, &quot;lef&quot;, &quot;slep&quot; and &quot;han.&quot; This holds true for many words that end in a combination of a consonant, followed by &quot;t&quot; or &quot;d.&quot;

Drop the &quot;h&quot; sound. Many Jamaicans and English people leave off the beginning &quot;h&quot; in words like &quot;house&quot;, &quot;hoe&quot; and &quot;half.&quot;

Speak in the present tense even when referring to the past.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2156029_spea...an-accent.html </div></div>

dis a foolinish. dem a confuse accent (inflection) with speech patterns. ppl from newfoundland do dem tings and dem accent sound nothing like jamaican accent.

[R_C]

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Miss Cleo

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rollin_Calf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Miss Cleo </div></div>:dw

[R_C]

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Sebastian the crab in &quot;The Little Mermaid&quot;.

[R_C]

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Anybody who says or writes &quot;yeah mon&quot;.