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Lingual

I have an accent, but I like to think of it as a refined accent. I pronounce all of my words through to the end. There are no dropped letters here. Growing up in a West Indian  household I always thought it was base to speak in third person..instead of "I'm going" its was "Me ah go", or  " I don't know" it was " Me nuh no".  Not to be confused I'm so proud of my heritage and there is something magical about the way we talk because for one it is English but if you're not used to it you won't understand a word of it.   Its like caribbean morse code and I love it. I love reggae music, love soca, love calypso and sing along proudly the music of my heritage.  My point, I've gone nearly 20 years perfecting my accent so that if needed you would never be able to distinguish me from my brothers or sisters and in a manner of hours you've infiltrated and spoiled everything.

an me luv it u ole theef yuh!

 

Love you...

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princesstamtam

princesstamtam wrote on Sep 05, 12:46 PM

Mo I can't tell you how embarrased I was as a child with this. I mean I never understood why people couldn't understand my parents and when I started an american school I was told of course that I spoke backwards. That by itself pushed me to bury my accent.  Thank you very much for the compliment and you are right heritage is a beautiful thing...

then along came love and now I sound like I'm stuck between two worlds.

princesstamtam

princesstamtam wrote on Sep 05, 03:12 PM

Try being a black girl with a Japanese name. Tamiko was translated to Tamoto, Tomato, Amoco by my smelly evil little classmates.  The only ones who appreciated my name were my teachers well at least the one's who recognized the origin of the name. 

I love the phrase you coined Sharifa "Jamerican Arab" how cute is that  he has the best of both worlds at his feet the pyramids of Egypt and the crystal clean waters of Jamaica.  Mona and Sharifa nothing beats a failure but a try and that's what I'm doing.

simplycool

simplycool wrote on Sep 05, 05:14 PM

lol
I just crack up reading you ladies discus languages and dialects. I had a good laugh. Thank you very much it was a good blog to begin with but I totally enjoyed the dialogue.

Andre
 proud to be West Indian even prouder Jamaican
lol

princesstamtam

princesstamtam wrote on Sep 07, 10:40 AM

Did I mention that he has a perfectly lovely speaking voice, but deliberately talks in the most gutterish patois just to annoy me.  I think! No he wouldn't do that to me...

Andre you really should listen to Mona. Our three-way chats are legendary non-stop laughing.

simplycool

simplycool wrote on Sep 08, 03:01 AM

I can only imagine
i love my "gutterish patios", and its never to annoy you.
i love your perfect "Queen's English but you also bruk out eena patios some times... i like that

princesstamtam

princesstamtam wrote on Sep 08, 03:08 AM

I adore you Mr. Collins Smile

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