https://www.expatify.com/jamaica/learning-jamaican-english-jamaican-accents-and-slang-words.html Travel & Expat Lifestyle Magazine Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 https://www.expatify.com/jamaica/learning-jamaican-english-jamaican-accents-and-slang-words.html/comment-page-1#comment-13981 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:51:12 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=2855#comment-13981 Hi thanks for doing that. I”m from jamaica, left there 30 years ago at pre-teen age. A lot of what you said is really not so unless new words were invented since I left. I also visit every few years and still haven’t heard some of them. Remember, Jamaicans speak English, that is just street slang just like us here in The United States, they don’t all speak proper English. Jamaicans don’t write “patwa” they write proper English, it is indeed the official language there. The teachers in shool, the news report on tv all the ‘important’ people like Government and well educated people speak english.Please let that be known. When i lived there , my parents taught us proper english. Good looking out though…planning on moving back soon too btw.

]]> https://www.expatify.com/jamaica/learning-jamaican-english-jamaican-accents-and-slang-words.html/comment-page-1#comment-13125 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:14:02 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=2855#comment-13125 This is good but you spell SAMFI as SANFI. You may correct that. I do not know what I-ney is. Never heard of it or the cepes. Congratulations, it is a good list of translation.

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