Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile
MissJinx@lemmy.world 12 hours agotil Jamaican has a special dialect that is kind of english
Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile
MissJinx@lemmy.world 12 hours agotil Jamaican has a special dialect that is kind of english
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Patois is a creole language whose vocabulary largely comes from English, and there’s a gradient of dialects between Patois and Jamaican Standard English, but pure Patois is considered mutually unintelligible with Jamaican English and thus a separate language. Moreover:
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
To clarify, patois is a generic term, as is creole, and can apply to any non-standardized language and is not specific to any particular location or group or language. That’s why it’s called “Jamaican patois” in the screenshot.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 hours ago
Don’t they spell the specific Jamaican language “Patwa”, to differentiate it from the idea of a patois in general?