I'm not jamaican and neither are you..

[ekstrak]

..so whats with all this patois pon boards dem, ya pack o worthless blood cloth's !

seriously though..

[delendi]

how will we ever unite as one world if we don't embrace each other's cultures?

[paolo]

I think it makes me sound cool. Blud

[jim]

..so whats with all this patois pon boards dem, ya pack o worthless blood cloth's !

seriously though..

You're not French but you just used the French words "patois" instead of the english "regional dialect"

[obiwan]

I'm not Jamaican and neither are you but Ekstraks Y-fronts smell of poo.....

[echo wanderer]

..so whats with all this patois pon boards dem, ya pack o worthless blood cloth's !

seriously though..

I don't know...what's with EVERY other race in the world who aren't black,urban youths using "ebonics"??Riddle me THAT Batman??

I'd say it's about the same innit?It's okay for some white kid from the UK to make finger pistols,but a black/white/hispanic/whatever dubber,reggae,or dubstep artist from the US can't use patois,simply because they aren't from Jamaica?

Delendi's right.It's all about embracing and acepting other cultures.If I have to get used to asain kids running around saying "n*gga",then I think patois/pseudo-patois is a much easier thing to swallow.

[hera]

If I have to get used to asain kids running around saying "n*gga",then I think patois/pseudo-patois is a much easier thing to swallow.

i also think it makes me sound cool.

[obiwan]

All of the above. Are we gonna stop Jamaicans listening to Country and Western/liking rock/cheesy house whatever they want to listen to?? What about Derek from Big Brother, should he now restrict his vocabulary to "alright still" and "Yeh its doin a lot" You and whose army chieftain! If inner city drug dealers are listening to the artic monkeys, are YOU going to tell them that theyre doing it all wrong??????!!!!!!

Didn't think so, better rest your gums then....

[delendi]

[pompende]

looks like a bad case of frostbite

[delendi]

unicef will smite you and your negative thoughts

[the wiggle baron]

Surely the very fact that this conversation is being had supports the idea that people from differing backgrounds are different?

I dont care who/where anything i might say comes from, if i think its amusing/seems an appropriate word, im not going to use it/not use it purely because of the geography of my birth place. If there are people who feel like a word or phrase is their communities, then in my mind they are being seperatist and positively encouraging "social isolation or involvement in cliques". Which I cannot see a positive in.

For example, I happen to think that the idea of something being "shower" is one of the fucking funniest pieces of terminology ive ever heard.

(quote poax) "This ones too shower for ghetto, this is some hose pipe business right here". That sentence alone would be reason enough to use "regional dialect" in my opinion...

[delendi]

innart... we're exploring new cultures, activities, musics etc all the time and sometimes there are occasions where there really isn't a word in our traditional english (or wherever you're from) dialect which describes what we see/feel/hear. you'd have to use LOTS of words instead of just one patois or whatever else word. some tunes are just a lot more 'shower' than 'really rather pleasant on the ear'

[benjybars]

..so whats with all this patois pon boards dem, ya pack o worthless blood cloth's !

seriously though..

all bimbi boy dem fi ded...


nah, whatever.. nothing wrong with a healthy love of language. alie??

[the wiggle baron]

sometimes there are occasions where there really isn't a word in our traditional english (or wherever you're from)

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...)

[hera]

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.

[the wiggle baron]

I meant we dont have a word for when it rains but theres no clouds

[masstronaut]

Didn't Digital Mystikz remix a song about that?

"I say, that is a rather anomalous instance of precipitation."

[hera]

I meant we dont have a word for when it rains but theres no clouds

in cali we call that 'humid'.

[delendi]

u don't get rain without clouds! RAIN COMES FROM CLOUDS! i used to farsi 'EHH' a lot... cos i knew a boy who did and it slipped into my vocabulary. good times, might pick it up again.