A Jamaican accent just makes me smile

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL Jar Jar Binks wasn’t some alien species. He was just Jamacian.

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  • cowfodder@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the words of Wayne Brady, “Meesa Jar Jar Binks! Meesa one big stereotype!”

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.

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    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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  • aln@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean Black accent. He’s a loser little titty baby.

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    • rami@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some sodomite sent me a bucket of poop

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    til Jamaican has a special dialect that is kind of english

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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:

      A 2007 survey by the Jamaican Language Unit found that 17.1 percent of the population were monolingual in Jamaican Standard English (JSE), 36.5 percent were monolingual in Patois, and 46.4 percent were bilingual, although earlier surveys had pointed to a greater degree of bilingualism (up to 90 percent).

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somebody once tell mi seh di world a go roll mi
  Mi nah di sharpest tool inna di shed
  She did a look kinda dumb wid har finger an har thumb
  Inna di shape a one “L” pon har forehead

  Well, di years start come an dem nuh stop come
  Fed to di rules an mi hit di ground runnin’
  Nuh make sense fi live without fun
  Yuh brain get smart, but yuh head get dumb
  So much fi do, so much fi see
  So, wah wrong wid takin’ di backstreets?
  Yuh wi never know if yuh nuh go (go)
  Yuh wi never shine if yuh nuh glow

  Hey now, yuh a one all-star
  Get yuh game on, go play
  Hey now, yuh a one rock star
  Get di show on, get paid
  (An all dat glitters a gold)
  Only shootin’ stars break di mold

  It a cool place, an dem seh it get colder
  Yuh bundle up now, wait ‘til yuh get older
  But di meteor men beg fi differ
  Judgin’ by di hole in di satellite picture
  Di ice we skate a gettin’ pretty thin
  Di water a get warm, so yuh might as well swim
  Mi world a blaze, how ‘bout yours?
  Dat’s di way mi like it, an mi wi never get bored

  Hey now, yuh a one all-star
  Get yuh game on, go play
  Hey now, yuh a one rock star
  Get di show on, get paid
  (All dat glitters a gold)
  Only shootin’ stars break di mold

  Go fi di moon
  Go, go, go, go fi di moon
  Go, go, go, go fi di moon
  Go, go, go fi di moon

  Hey now, yuh a one all-star
  Get yuh game on, go play
  Hey now, yuh a one rock star
  Get di show on, get paid
  (An all dat glitters a gold)
  Only shootin’ stars

  Somebody once ask, “Could mi spare some change fi gas?
  Mi need fi get miself away from dis place”
  Mi seh, “Yep, wah a concept, mi could use a likkle fuel miself
  An we could all use a likkle change”

  Well, di years start come an dem nuh stop come
  Fed to di rules an mi hit di ground runnin’
  Nuh make sense fi live without fun
  Yuh brain get smart, but yuh head get dumb
  So much fi do, so much fi see
  So, wah wrong wid takin’ di backstreets?
  Yuh wi never know if yuh nuh go (go)
  Yuh wi never shine if yuh nuh glow

  Hey now, yuh a one all-star
  Get yuh game on, go play
  Hey now, yuh a one rock star
  Get di show on, get paid
  (An all dat glitters a gold)
  Only shootin’ stars break di mold

  (An all dat glitters a gold)
  Only shootin’ stars break di mold

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1000002563

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  • BossDj@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Informer
    You no say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
    A licky boom-boom down
    ‘Tective man he says see Daddy me
    Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
    A licky boom-boom down

    Police-a dem dey come and-a blow down me door
    One him come crawl through through my window
    So they put me in the back of the car at the station
    From that point on I reach my destination
    Where the destination reached was the East Detention
    Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  di copypasta

  Weh di fuck yuh jus fucking seh bout mi, yuh likkle bitch? Mi ago mek yuh know seh mi graduate top a mi class inna di Navy Seals, an mi did involve inna numerous secret raids pan Al-Quaeda, an mi have ova 300 confirmed kills. Mi get train inna gorilla warfare an mi a di top sniper inna di entire US armed forces. Yuh a nuh nutten to mi but jus anodda target. Mi ago wipe yuh di fuck out wid precision di likes a weh yuh neva si before pan dis Earth, mark mi fucking words. Yuh tink yuh can get weh wid seh dat deh shit to mi ova di Internet? Tingk agen, fucker. As wi a taak mi a contact mi secret network a spies across di USA an yuh IP a get trace rait now so yuh beta prepare fi di storm, maggot. Di storm weh wipe out di pathetic likkle ting weh yuh call yuh life. Yuh fucking dead, pikni. Mi can deh anyweh, anytime, an mi can kill yuh inna ova seven hundred ways, an dat is jus wid mi bare hands. Not only mi extensively trained inna unarmed combat, but mi have access to di entire arsenal a di United States Marine Corps an mi ago use it to it full extent fi wipe yuh miserable ass off di face a di continent, yuh likkle shit. If only yuh coulda know weh unholy retribution yuh likkle “clever” comment did bout fi bring dung pan yuh, maybe yuh woulda hold yuh fucking tongue. But yuh couldn’t, yuh neva, an now yuh a pay di price, yuh goddamn idiot. Mi ago shit fury all ova yuh an yuh ago drown inna it. Yuh fucking dead, kiddo.

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  • Whitebrow@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.

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    • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not even a native speaker and it still works.

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• Default_Defect@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Me wan da poonani"
  - Steven Segal

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• No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Daaaaay-oh!

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah that’s just racism

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah i had a really bad feeling about this post, it’s an actual language spoken by actual people who have been historically discriminated against, not just “weird english”

    The reason creoles look like weird english sometimes is because they’re the mixture of multiple languages

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  • Makhno@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How is translating a sentence racism? Clutch your pearls harder

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    • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      are you saying this to bait me or are you so obtuse as to think it’s the translating part i have an issue with, and not the “haha look this language is so silly! 🤣 this is better than therapy! 🤣” part

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s called a creole language. An even simpler version is a pidgin language (there’s an example posted in one of the comments). Creole is usually a more evolved pidgin. Developed by children of creole speakers.

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Found a racist who doesn’t want to look inward and think a dialect existing is racist because it sounds silly to them.

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  • Crybb@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you just don’t know shit

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• watson@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Treating another culture as a form of entertainment isn’t very nice.

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  • Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Clowns when you refuse to laugh at their culture

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    • watson@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A convenient answer when you consider that clown culture is one of the few that is expressly designed to be laughed at. The other others are not.

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  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As I write this, your comment is the lowest rated in the thread and the highest rated comment is someone making the same point but quoting a comedian.

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    • watson@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also find that pretty interesting. What’s your take away from this?

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  • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Technically the post is reducing another culture to a form of therapy

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    • watson@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Upvote for your cheerful and optimistic view. Perhaps you’re right, and that the benefit outweighs any drawback.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice? No. Entertaining? … … Ok yeah it is.

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    • watson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure this means that we agree.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Try pidgin next

  www.bbc.com/pidgin

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Man I miss Pidgin

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve having a week and this is exactly what I needed. I’m now getting all my news from BBC Pidgin.

    English headline: Trump wants to pause migration from ‘third-world countries’

    Pidgin headline: Who be di ‘third world countries’ Trump say im go permanently pause dia migration to US?

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Waahn ded

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• SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same.

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• TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do a Nigerian voice to help process my pain. But it doesn’t work I keep doing it tho

  Now read it back how in de voyce

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