Language

[blugiant]

Re: Language

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Faithfull</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YoungShotta</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Do you think it would be hard for me to learn the patois language...I understand some of it but how hard do you think it would be to learn it well enough to have a conversation with someone who speaks it...I know it has Central and West African influences...my dad is from nigeria (i'm trying to learn his language too...he wont teach me tho..he say its to hard)and i've been around him all my life and I still have trouble understanding what he says in english sometimes to where i have to ask him to spell it...lol. </div></div>

since yu a chrow carn de eye aggoo teach yu

furst patwah: man duppy laff ha ha yeah ooman duppy laff ke ke kin kin yeah

iinglish: i forgot dem

respect

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...annuh suh mi kno' ie..mi kno ie as:

Man duppy laff keh keh keng keng

Ooman dupply laff...&quot;mi noh noah..&quot; </div></div>

yu learn itt wan way mii teach ann blend itt annada way.

yu doan knoo dat tryinn fe ovatand mii iss natt passible unless mii waan yu fii knoo. miss lou wass fe mii sesame street

[Bizzy]

Re: Language

waaaieeee no sah...da one yah conneck <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YoungShotta</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Do you think it would be hard for me to learn the patois language...I understand some of it but how hard do you think it would be to learn it well enough to have a conversation with someone who speaks it...I know it has Central and West African influences...my dad is from nigeria (i'm trying to learn his language too...he wont teach me tho..he say its to hard)and i've been around him all my life and I still have trouble understanding what he says in english sometimes to where i have to ask him to spell it...lol. </div></div>

since yu a chrow carn de eye aggoo teach yu

furst patwah: man duppy laff ha ha yeah ooman duppy laff ke ke kin kin yeah

iinglish: i forgot dem

respect

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[elliz20]

Re: Language

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YoungShotta</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I know Jamaican speak english for the most part...duh...but not all Jamaicans speak total english 100% of the time...but anyway I listen to alot of reggae music and sometimes i don't always know what is being said...most of the time i can figure it out. </div></div>

well these ppl dem waan seh all jamaicans speak english. They come from Jamaica, Ive been in Jamaica and mi kno all of dem no kno English. But in stores n oda formal places dem speak good english. But when mi seh dat dem jus tell mi im fool n no kno dem country, really now? yall might live in jamaica but if u seh dat all jamaicans kno english a lie u a tell...

I could teach u patwa mi no rude r ntn, a like dem tink dem betta den white ppl n dat we all ave done sittin to dem.. jus no listen when dem a pree.. mi no buisness wah dem seh, dem nuh kno mi..

[elliz20]

Re: Language

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Faithfull</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=blakkgiant][quote=YoungShotta]

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yu learn itt wan way mii teach ann blend itt annada way.

yu doan knoo dat tryinn fe ovatand mii iss natt passible unless mii waan yu fii knoo. miss lou wass fe mii sesame street </div></div>

U tink so? wah u tink we stupid? Well mi kno I ovastan weh u a seh. But u see, patwa is spoken so how u spell it come differently, dats y mi some time tink u spell it wrong :P