I'm not jamaican and neither are you..

[paolo]

[delendi]

i have that album. it's big

[Pistonsbeneath]

dza take note

[th@-pu$$y]

My neighbor's ex wife's hair dressers mailman is 1/4 jamaican..........so that makes me like 1/16 jamaican

[Genevieve]

Also don't think i'm getting at you Merkin, but how do you know that the people on the forum don't have friendships or relationships with Jamaican people as well, it seems to mean that you are entitled to an opinion in your case.

Im absolutely certain loads of people do, and I know for a fact there are man/woman on here who are originally from the Islands but im also sure there are plenty of folk who's only encounter with a West Indian has been buying some chicken at carnival (and if you live out in the sticks somewhere, thats not exactly your fault either!). Being a teacher, i hear loads of kids (non Afro-CAribbean) saying 'fassehole this','Bloodclaat that', cos they heard it on Channel U and think its cool and thats what all black people sound like. Oh, and they think that all Jamaicans smoke weed.....

Its a little bit like say a French person coming to the UK, learning how to call someone 'a fucking wanker', eating fish & chips and going down the pub for some binge drinking and then thinking that was the extent of English culture!

Im totally up for people participating and learning about different cultures and all, but dont jus pick up on the stereotypical shit. I love West Indian culture, but there is much more to it than ganja, jerk chicken and cussing bad word. People need to find out about the history, read some literature (Small Island or whatever). Positive representations seen?

Dude, if people hear a word often enough, they'll use it. I started using some ebonics because of hip-hop, some Jamaican lingo because of my interaction with heads in dubplate culture and punk related lingo because of my interactions in the punk scene. Similarly, gamers on forums start copying 1337 speak because it's all they hear when they game.

Once you interact with people in a certain sub-culture a lot, you pick up bits of their lingo. It doesn't mean you have to learn all about the cultural history of that word because you start using some words. It's just words. Languages evolve through interbreeding with other languages, that's how the English language derived from French and the Germanic languages.

[clifford_-]

shameless plug, but if you wanna listen to some real ska, i spin it alot out in (north) surrey. does that make sense? (click the link in my sig if your out that way and want a good booze up for cheap!)
~im talking harry j allstars, desmond dekka etc....
i was born in kent, grew up in surrey and lived in E2 for a bit, i sound very mockney, only because everyone around me (ie my family) were from london, so the accent spreads, same as the patois is getting established in the ends as its own, new "cockney" accent. thatll spread out too, but these kids growing up hear it all the time from older kids, so theyre obvs gonna pick it up. englands a v multicultural place so you gotta expect the dialect to change!

[noam]

For example, you know when it rains a bit, and you look up and its blue sky and youre like "What the hell?!!". Aint got a word for that...(Good old eskimos have 3, but i cant remember the differences...)

instead of the english "what the hell?!!" i use the farsi "EHH!!". it relays both shock and utter "what the fuck"ness.

thats probably my dads favourite word. srsly.

[Pedro Sánchez]

[kingldub]

Doesn't really bother me to be honest, gotta say though the kids outside One Stops in deepest, darkest Sussex throwing around the patois makes me chuckle sometimes.

[phrex]

i'd probably use it if I could - first i have to manage to speak proper english haha.
i think people like my swiss accent on my radioshow

[BLAHBLAHJAH]

People who think Rastafarian shite is cool simply arn't away that it's just a strain o' christianity... Ya can't polish a turd, and you can't redeem christianity with drugs and crazy haircuts

[clifford_-]

culture aint all down to religion mate!