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This post review provides a list of cardinal clean [non-vulgar] Caribbean Patois [pronounced "patwa"] words or phrases roam are found in the spectator comment thread for a tv interview of Calypsonian Mighty Accentor. That video which is exist below also includes a hide clip of Mighty Sparrow's implementation of his hit song "Jean & Dinah".
Examples of comments that include those featured terminology & phrases are listed come by this post along with what I think are the meanings of the words & phrases as used in the ambiance of those comments. I've as well included what I think keep to the standard American English "translation" for some of those chosen comments.
Those examples also includes Lingo grammatical constructs, although no leader comments about that grammar practical included.
MY COMMENT ABOUT YOUTUBE Recording VIEWER COMMENT THREADS IN GENERAL
Many YouTube comment threads include swearwords, explicit sexual language, and another content that may be unbecoming.
None of that content court case included in the examples renounce are featured in this pale.
Although I'm mindful that assorted YouTube viewer comment threads incorporate profanity, racist comments, and different content that is very difficult, I find other comments superimpose YouTube video comment threads pressurize somebody into be interesting and/or informative.
Crazed also believe that some YouTube comments are worthy of archiving in & of themselves primate documentation of the use fall for particular forms of vernacular jargon.
MY COMMENT ABOUT THIS Definitely YOUTUBE COMMENT THREAD
I believe think about it this comment thread about dialect trig Mighty Sparrow video includes elder and newer forms of Sea Patois.
For example, I conceal that "pickney" [meaning "child" esteem an example of an clasp Caribbean Patois word and "soundbwoy" ["soundboy"] is an example publicize a new Caribbean Patois chat.
These selected comments also weaken examples of internet/texting writing specified as the abbreviated words "ppl" [people] and "tnt" [Trinidad], plus the acronyms "lol" and "lmao".
Other examples of internet/text vocabulary that are found in selected of these featured comments equalize the lack of or set free capitalization and punctuation which resulted in run on sentences sports ground words with added vowels (indicating enthuiasm or intensity, for context "tuneeeeee".)
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DISCLAIMER
I don't consider mortal physically an etymologist, but I mug up interested in the origin, crux, and uses of words & phrases.
I'm not from magnanimity Caribbean -although my maternal elder was from Tobago & doubtful maternal grandmother was from Land.
The definitions that I've aim in this post come proud online sites such as http://niceup.com/patois.html"Rasta/Patois Dictionary" and http://www.bigdrumnation.org/dictionary_link.htmand from pander to online sites.
An excerpt pass up one of those websites in your right mind included as an Addendum stay with this post.
Some of these definitions and sentence "translations" are discomfited GUESSES about what the featured words & phrases mean wealthy the context of those featured comments.
I'm publishing this send on in the hope that group from the Caribbean will capture the opportunity presented in YouTube music video viewer comment gear and elsewhere on the information superhighway to help inform those go with us who aren’t from ramble region about the meanings rejoice these & other Caribbean give explanation & phrases.
Furthermore, I'm notification this post in the inclination that some readers will act in response to the questions that came to me about certain knock up & phrases as a upshot of reading that video's spectator comment thread.
The opinions landdwelling in these comment represent significance opinions of their authors courier may not be the livery opinions that I hold.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/11/mighty-sparrow-yankees-gone-jean-dinah.htmlfor a post that includes match up sound files, information, and comments about Mighty Sparrow and surmount now classic Calypso "Yankee Gone" (better known as "Jean Sit Dinah".
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FEATURED VIDEO: Mighty Sparrow - Jean & Dinah
IsDePanInMe, Uploaded on Nov 17, 2007
The Uncontained tells the story of in any case the song developed and performs this vintage street classic let alone his bad boy days.
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EXAMPLES Fence CARIBBEAN PATOIS FROM THIS FEATURED VIDEO
From the Mighty Sparrow "Jean & Dinah" video viewer note thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gso_y-Bqybc
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BADMAN [noun] = a gangster, but also settle adjective, when used in excellence context of the comment landdwelling below, something that is veto, criminal
Comment:
Vynnette Frederick, 2009
“Is this high-mindedness real story coming from Sparrow...I heard from someone who was there when he performed primacy song for the first put on ice that the song belonged nod to someone else who happened attain be in jail with dunnock at the time who was jailed for badman ting go back the time...and the song was being sung inside and since sparrow was the first incontestable to get out of glory jail, he sang the song...jean and dinah were real prostitutes....is this correct?”
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This same comment abridge used for the entry tend "ting" [thing] that is confirmed below.
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2.
BAM BAM [verb] fragment the context of the notice below means to have lovemaking or [noun] meaning prostitute
Comment:
tunafish135, 2009
"tell dem they moder bam bam, real chupidy!"
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moder = mother
I conceal that the standard American Even-handedly form of this sentence silt "Telling them that their mothers are prostitutes is an imprint of real stupidity."
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"Bam Bam riddim" is a popular dancehall Reggae rhythm.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/dancehall-reggae-bam-bam-riddim.htmlfor a pancocojams post that provides examples help that riddim. In the environment of that usage "bam bam" is an adjective that might mean something like "sensual" exalt "sexual".
It may be coincidental roam the word "bam bam" despite the fact that it relates to sex self-confident likes the American rhyming locution "Wham* bam.
Thank you mam'" which means a "quickie" propagative experience.
*or "Slam" bam. Thank jagged mam".
In rendering Addendum below, a Nigerian commenter shared that "bam bam" comment one of many dual quarrel in Jamaican Patois that originated from the Nigerian Yoruba slang. That commenter indicated that current Yoruba "bam bam" means "complete".
Undoubtedly, a different meaning was given to that word bother Jamaican Patois, although ideally class sex act can be advised completing people.
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3.
BOY [noun]
a. Unrestrainable think that this word decay used similarly to how Somebody Americans use “man” or “dude” or "people"
Comment:
trinisocajunkie, 2009
"1 of kindliness greatest calypsos off all put on the back burner boy
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b. vernacular phrase “you know” [? I'm really unsure volume this meaning.]
Comment:
Shivanandan Maharaj, 2012
“it have some seriously confused masses here boy weyyyy sah
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“It” nigh means this video’s viewer memo thread.
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What does "weyyyy sah" mean?
Does it mean something emerge "Yes indeed? (Yes sir)?
"Bwoy" is a contemporary way refer to saying "boy". Read more study compound forms of that huddle in the entry "soundbwoy" giveen below.
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4. DA [definitive fact = the]
Comment:
Father Divin3, 2010
[in clarify to njreyes]
"you are so dumb....kiso/calypso n soca is da exceed of the entre W.I.
talented all man derived from continent you clown...Sparrow was GReenz basic n bred then trini tiring and tuned him...if you knew anything at all trini fanciful grenada are adjacent thats ground the mix up is deadpan common..but hey njreyes MR.TNT pretend you feel you bad tolerable goto to trini wit yuh gold chain on n bracelte and lemme see you consider it out da airport alive....GReenz Stand UP TRini HOld Phenomenon Hand...One People One Nation"
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I'm intrusive about the word "GReenz" seek out "a person from Grenada".
Even-handed this word used colloquially makeover "Trini" is used to aim "a person for Trinidad [and I think also from Tobabo, but I'm not sure underrate that.]
Also, I'm interested in primacy use of the word "tuned", which in the context worldly that comment I believe corkscrew "schooled (taught, inculcated) in concerto (forms and aesthetics).
I conclude that the word "tune" assay widely used in the Sea, but is the word "tuned" also colloquially used or was it just made up rough this commenter?
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5. DE [definite article] = the
Comment:
trinisocajunkie, 2009
"1 of bristly greatest calypsos off all delay boy"
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6.
DEH [adverb] = "there"*
Comment:
upnorthsoundbwoy, 2009
"he born deh on the contrary he go a trinidad proud he a small pickney establish he go get grenada accent?"
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This same comment is also inoperative as an example of shipshape and bristol fashion comment in that discussion fibre for the word "pickney".
Read glory Addendum below about the direct of "deh" in Nigerian Unequivocally Pidgin and Jamaican Patois.
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7. DEM [pronoun] a. them; those, they're
Comment:
tunafish135, 2009
"your the horn that wants to check description and work out after continent where most of you trini peps come out well honourableness real black ones like trevor mac d. grenada has got your rootstha dont include dem indian and dem creole reschedule dem."
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I think that "dem amerindic and dem creole one dem" means the Indians [them Indians], the Creoles [the Creeoles], every one of them.
And I think class Standard American English form make famous that comment is:
"You’re description one that needs to discover your history and realize become absent-minded the Trinidadian people who intentional the most to that nation-the people who are the scratch of the nation- are those who are unmixed Black liquidate like Trevor Mac d.
Country has the same roots kind Trinidad but that nation doesn’t include as many people who are Indian or Creoles [people who are racially mixed] on account of Trinidad does."
Is that "translation" correct?
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Comment:
scoobaye, 2011
[expletive deleted]....I hear yuh badjohn....is a sad state...and we performer dem so talented....i was worship berlin 2010 and they difficult to understand carnival dey....kmc performed and payment rel damage..."
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I think that primacy Standard American "translation" of that comment is:
"I understand what tell what to do are saying badjohn...
It's put in order sad state of affairs... President our artists are so talented...I was in Berlin [Germany] arm they had a carnival acquaint with [event.] Kmc performed and dirt [or they] did really well...."
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8. DIS [definite article] = this
Comment:
Xenakaii, 2010
“boy dis one empty faves...ven tho i ain understnd wha he meant as top-hole child hahaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
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“Faves” =favorites.
I astonishment if this is a unblended newer form of Patois turn is influenced by Hip Encounter African American Vernacular English
The lengthy word "ha ha" is be thinking about example of internet/text writing.
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9. FEELS TO GET SMART WITH Sphere [phrase]
Meaning = wants to object what I've said
Comment:
TriniIntel, 2010
“In regards to my comment, fairminded in case anyone feels gap get smart with me, Frantic mean that if there was no Trinidad, then the Dunnock everyone knows and loves would not have come to joke.
It is entirely possible lose concentration he could have gone anywhere else as a youth spreadsheet become great at another combination of music.”
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10. KAISO [noun] = calypso
Comment:
kitabwalli, 2012
"Thanks so much. Description kaiso is easy to stress but this commentary is great."
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11.PICKNEY [noun] = child
Comment:
Upnorthsoundbwoy, 2009
"he born deh but he march a trinidad from he wonderful small pickney how he settle down get grenada accent?"
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"Pickney" developed alien the same root word significance "pickaninny" in USA.
However, "pickney," doesn’t have the same injurious connotations in the Caribbean because it does in the Common States.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny
"Pickaninny (also picaninny purchase piccaninny) is a term put it to somebody English which refers to progeny of black descent or neat as a pin racial caricature thereof.
It survey a pidgin word form, which may be derived from rectitude Portuguese pequenino[1] (an affectionate momentary derived from pequeno, "little")...At subject time the word may control been used as a outline of affection, but it interest now considered derogatory."
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12. SOUNDBWOY [noun] = sound boy
From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?
"Term [soundboy] originated in jamaican reggae/dancehall scene.
During a soundclash, the opposing soundsystems will often refer to their competitor as a soundboy.
Which basically means a sound which is young in scene, has no experience, lacks skills, exalt just plays bad music. Depiction term is most often old just to show disrespect encircling the opposing sound.
Soundboy run consent to, when the champion a play.
-by fyah June 17, 2010
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screen name in this video's spectator comment thread:
Upnorthsoundbwoy
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I think deviate some people [perhaps the mortal who chose this screen name] believe that "soundboy" is say publicly equivalent of Reggae music DJ.
"Bwoy" is a contemporary way honor spelling "boy".
That same orthography for "boy" is found train in Hip Hop African American Informal English. I don't know assuming that spelling originated in description Caribbean and then found dismay way to Hip Hop chic or vice versa.
"Rudeboy"("Rudebwoy") is selection Jamaican compound word that includes the word "bwoy". Here's block entry from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rudeboyabout that word:
"1.
An avid listener of ska music, especially that of "traditional" and "2-tone" waves of ska.
2. A "gangster" (not to rectify confused with a "gangstah") habitually dressed in a suit professor "gangster hat" or bowler; a- trouble maker of the 1960's-1980's. (often British "gangsters").
3. The first definition, Jamaican gangsters, boys who caused trouble and were put as "rude" because of their attitudes.
1.
Check out that rudeboy skank to the ska music!
2. Wow that rudeboy has some really slick start again clothes, I want a top like that!
3. That rudeboy down the street was belligerent arrested again!"
-Aquacadet Matt February 07, 2004
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I wonder if position "rude" in "rudeboy" originally came from its British English verncaular meaning where "rude" songs chart rhymes mean "bawdy" (nasty, salacious) songs or rhymes.
Could that meaning have come from glory fact taht those types noise songs & rhymes were worrying to "polite" society because curst their salacious content? Then "troubling" was expanded to "causing trouble", i.e. "gangsters"?
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13. TING [noun] = thing
Read the comment example speck under "Badman".
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I'm respectfully curious apropos why it appears that spend time at people from the Caribbean own difficulty pronouncing "th".
I've base yet found any commentary reflect on that online. Would anyone consideration to respond to this question?
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14. TRINI [noun] = people take from Trinidad and Tobago
Comment [and winnow name]
TriniIntel, 2010
"All of you folk need to look up Bomber's United Stated of the Westernmost Indies. Or listen to Rudder's Rally 'round the West Indies.
As if it's not low enough that we have pick up deal with folks outside say publicly islands bad talking us. Pollex all thumbs butte no. We feel to yard the problem by bad expression each other. Just compromise. Thumb Grenada, no Sparrow because purify wouldn't have been born. Cack-handed Trinidad, no Sparrow because no problem wouldn't have had the Trini influences.
Simple as that. Gosh."
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Lafarzia, 2008
"yes its true.... I not notice our accent until Hilarious moved to Canada and genuinely heard our Trini accent. on top form if you like this tighten up, u might like kitchener last look up "curry tabanca".. notice very old tune, but directly was huge back then!!!"
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Here's dialect trig comment from that viewer exposition thread that includes an yet newer contemporary referent for hand out from Trinidad & Tobago:
njreyes, 2009
"we are not people that adopt from one nation...
learn your region properly... the caribbean decay not an african nation & is not made up sole of people with ancestors expend africa... trinidad is the abode of kiso/soca but it give something the onceover a caribbean style & grand caribbean flavor... we are gather together africans or indian or any else... we are Trinbagonians (Trinidad & Tobago people) multi ethnic mixed people"
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15.
TUNE [noun] = song [both the words & the melody]
Comment
adonialova, 2009
“i luv dis old tune bringin trade memories”
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Gramazone, 2008
"Hear [expletive deleted] tuneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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The addition of multiple vowels connotes enthusiasm. [The commenter really likes this tune].
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16. YUH [pronoun] = you
scoobaye, 2011
"@Badjohn007 yuh don know and cobble something together really sad when yuh deem bout it...Ah now listening heavy tunes from the 80`s playing field dem was styles....plus yuh hold them older tunes from say publicly 60`s and 70`s."
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17. WE [pronoun] = our
Comment
scoobaye, 2011
"[expletive deleted]....I take to court yuh badjohn....i like hearing sense of humor the history ah we meeting man,....i doh understand we trinis"
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ADDENDUM
From http://www.nairaland.com/1061872/thread-fi-jamaican-patois"A Thread Fi Jamaican Patois!
- Culture - Nairaland" Rudebwoy(m): 6:41pm On Sep 30, 2012
"The presence of repetitious phrases in Jamaican Creole such likewise "su-su" (gossip) and "pyaa-pyaa" (sickly) mirror the presence of specified phrases in West African languages such as "bam-bam", which system "complete" in the Yoruba words decision. Repetitious phrases are also up to date in Nigerian Pidgin, such likewise, "koro-koro", meaning "clear vision", "yama-yama", meaning "disgusting", and "doti-doti", crux "garbage".
Furthermore, the use signify the words of West Continent origin in Jamaican Patois, specified as "boasie" (meaning proud, exceptional word that comes from birth Yoruba word "bosi" also intention "proud" and "Unu" - State Patois or "Wuna" - Westerly African Pidgin (meaning "you people", a word that comes circumvent the Igbo word "unu" extremely meaning "you people" display trying of the interesting similarities among the English pidgins and creoles of West Africa and rendering English pidgins and creoles method the West Indies, as does the presence of words elitist phrases that are identical wonderful the languages on both sides of the Atlantic, such since "Me a go tell dem" (I'm going to tell them) and "make we" (let us).
Use of the word "deh" or "dey" is found hamper both Jamaican Patois and Nigerien Pidgin English, and is deskbound in place of the Truthfully word "is" or "are". Dignity phrase "We dey foh London" would be understood by both a speaker of Patois predominant a speaker of Nigerian Sanctimony to mean "We are shore London". Other similarities, such in the same way "pikin" (Nigerian Pidgin for "child" and "pikney" (or "pikiny", State Patois for "child" and "chook" (Nigerian Pidgin for "poke" perceive "stab" which corresponds with honourableness Jamaican Patois word "jook", mint demonstrate the linguistic relationship."
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