ok since we confessing....

[RichD]

i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa)

[CeaBee]

Re: ok since we confessing....

i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.

[mountaingal]

Re: ok since we confessing....

you're from that age group/social class where it was verboten to speak patwa?

[rufian]

Re: ok since we confessing....

so you confession is that you is high class???

[loops]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div>

that's ok....don't feel a way. Neither could nite nurse.

[mountaingal]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.

</div></div>
strickly brown stew?

[rufian]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you're from that age group/social class where it was verboten to speak patwa? </div></div>
I was thinking the other day about the first correction my father gave to me.

'Na say um, say it'

[kia027]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div>

at least I had to come to america to learn patois

( mi learn it in mi sista patty shop )

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div> That must be kind a common. finny thing was that they never forbade me from speaking it,but nobody at home,and veryfew in my ummudiate circle spoke it fluently. But the problem I jave is that Americans have not been able to recognize my accent. some refuse to believe that I am jamaican. that some tomes unclude Jamaicans though.
until I prove that I know more wbout jamaica than them.

[RichD]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.

</div></div>you should qualify that wid &quot;even doah yuh bawn and grow a Jamaica&quot;

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: ok since we confessing....

I not confessing, just stating a fact...I don't have any kind of accent I speak TV/radio

and when I went to Andrews they shamed the patwa right outta mi damn those stuck up Kingstonian

[Wahalla]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div>

I bet you do.. there is no single patwa.. there is degrees of patwa....depending ong social class...

[CeaBee]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I not confessing, just stating a fact...I don't have any kind of accent I speak TV/radio

and when I went to Andrews they shamed the patwa right outta mi damn those stuck up Kingstonian </div></div>

LIES! this kingstonian is a patwa specialist

[CeaBee]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i confess (once again) to my dislike of all things curried and jerked, or anyting wid peppa for that matter.

</div></div>
strickly brown stew? </div></div>

is just so much brown stew me can eat too

[Wahalla]

Re: ok since we confessing....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have to confess that even doah mi bawn and grow a Jamaica (left Jamica when i was 26) i cant talk patwa ( i have a Jamaican accent but don't speak patwa) </div></div> That must be kind a common. finny thing was that they never forbade me from speaking it,but nobody at home,and veryfew in my ummudiate circle spoke it fluently. But the problem I jave is that Americans have not been able to recognize my accent. some refuse to believe that I am jamaican. that some tomes unclude Jamaicans though.
until I prove that I know more wbout jamaica than them. </div></div>


Added to which yu granfada had a servant philosphy!