Thursday, October 14, 2004
"...go bade..."
Boy!!! It's Thursday already and the week look like it did jus a start. Anyway today's post will have to be short since I have both a presentation and an exam on Saturday so priorities priorities.
This morning on my way down to office I was at the traffic light when a car, lets call it an ultimate driving machine, drove up beside me. The young lady in the front was talking to a young man in the back seat. They looked like brother and sister, both teenagers. She was saying, quite loudly, "Yuh mus stop tek dem Irish shower in di mawnin yuh nuh! Yuh stink ah cologne" He said something to her and her response was "yuh mus go bade". They were having a good laugh though so you knew it was in jest.
Needless to say occupants of cars on both sides pop up laughing (they were that vocal). My daughter eventually asked me what the girl meant by "stink of cologne". It then occured to me that she was in grade 8 and yet she had never heard the term before. I guess that as our culture changes so does our language and use of it. I explained and life went on.
Anyway, I need to go work on that presentation so later...
P.S. If you don't understand the quotes or spelling just holler at me and I'll translate for you.
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As you may have gathered I am married to a Canadian. When we were first going out I decided that Popsy was going to have to aclimatize himself to me as much as I would have to to his country and their little "quirks" so to speak. One day I casually told Popsy " Mi soon come, mi gawn go bade" Poor Popsy, he did not have a clue what I was talking about and answered "No thanks"....
Just a few months after we were married and living in Canada we were at a Ja. friend's house. There were a few non-Jamaicans there and the house owner asked them all something in Jamaican (I forget what now), but I am proud to say that Popsy was the only one that understood what he had been asked. I did my job well.
I make a concerted effort to teach my kidlets Jamican-isms, especially because they do not live in Ja and furthermore, we live "Backa Bush" so to speak.
P.S. That comment was from Ciya in Central Ontario, Canada :-)
Popsy turned down taking a bath with you. Silly man!
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