What Are You Doing Right Now? (328 Viewers)

[JuveJay]

I think he was joking.

---------- Post added 14.08.2012 at 13:55 ----------

We do have a different language here than just English. It's a broken form of French called Patois. I do not speak a word of it though.

Patois is basically any bastardised version of an existing language. In Haiti the patois (creole) is a local dialect of French mixed with other words (African languages, Spanish, native etc). In Jamaica the patois is exactly the same with English.

I suppose they are different languages in a sense, but haven't evolved over the same time period of their base languages. It's similar to the Scots language (not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic), a very strong localised dialect. I grew up listening to Jamaican patois all the time and it's very easy to understand for an English speaker with a bit of familiarity, the same as the other English-speaking Caribbean islands, but I couldn't understand variations from Spanish or French speaking islands.

 

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[Enron]

I guess that's one definition. We use it to mean something from the Caribbean. I think it officially means a language developed as a mix of two different languages.

Generally from a French colonial influence. No one refers to Spanglish as Creole.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Generally from a French colonial influence. No one refers to Spanglish as Creole.

We just have it wrong then There's actually a type of person we call a French Creole.

 

[Enron]

Creole doesn't have to be French, it's any language that originated from a pidgin. I think.

Not exactly, at least from my understanding growing up. I always thought as a pidgin as a simplification of numerous languages, not an originator.

 

[Lilith]

Thanks. And I am glad Matt's on. I actually knew none of this.

 

[Enron]

We just have it wrong then There's actually a type of person we call a French Creole.

I lived in Louisiana when I was little. There is an entire Louisiana Creole culture. Though it's different from Cajun.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Thanks. And I am glad Matt's on. I actually knew none of this.

I'm a good edumacator.

 

[Enron]

Patois is basically any bastardised version of an existing language. In Haiti the patois (creole) is a local dialect of French mixed with other words (African languages, Spanish, native etc). In Jamaica the patois is exactly the same with English.

I suppose they are different languages in a sense, but haven't evolved over the same time period of their base languages. It's similar to the Scots language (not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic), a very strong localised dialect. I grew up listening to Jamaican patois all the time and it's very easy to understand for an English speaker with a bit of familiarity, the same as the other English-speaking Caribbean islands, but I couldn't understand variations from Spanish or French speaking islands.

Gulla-Gulla bitch!

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

I lived in Louisiana when I was little. There is an entire Louisiana Creole culture. Though it's different from Cajun.

What's the difference?

 

[Enron]

What's the difference?

Whities and blackies.

Creole descends from African-slave/French speaking ancestry. Cajuns from White-poor/French speaking ancestry.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Whities and blackies.

Creole descends from African-slave/French speaking ancestry. Cajuns from White-poor/French speaking ancestry.

I see.

You like Lousiana?

 

[Enron]

I see.

You like Lousiana?

It's a neat place. Good food, music, alcohol laws. But it's really poor, poorly run, and uses a weird legal system.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

It's a neat place. Good food, music, alcohol laws. But it's really poor, poorly run, and uses a weird legal system.

Nice, sounds like home.

 

[Lilith]

Matt, I was wondering, do you think someone who lives in the Caribbean has a harder time writing English properly than someone in the US or England? I am mostly okay with writing but if you ask me to speak it properly I always screw up and the dialect usually always comes into play some where.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Matt, I was wondering, do you think someone who lives in the Caribbean has a harder time writing English properly than someone in the US or England? I am mostly okay with writing but if you ask me to speak it properly I always screw up and the dialect usually always comes into play some where.

I guess it all depends on his education. I've seen people from Trini & US make the same mistakes when writing.

 

[Enron]

Time to go mow some more grass. Cut down some Tree of Heaven earlier and now I'm pretty light headed.

 

[swag]

Generally from a French colonial influence. No one refers to Spanglish as Creole.

Good point. Or Spanglish as Patois.

It's a neat place. Good food, music, alcohol laws. But it's really poor, poorly run, and uses a weird legal system.

Parishes, not Counties, yo.

 

[Enron]

Good point. Or Spanglish as Patois.



Parishes, not Counties, yo.

French Common Law right in yo mothafuckin' ayass!

 

[swag]

French Common Law right in yo mothafuckin' ayass!

I guar-an-tee!

 

[Nzoric]

finally home. sick and tired of being double teamed by fat american diplomats in an airplane. buy two tickets you fucking whales.