ROTFLMAO....Ya geh do rite in....Shudda make frens wit Webster n Oxford wen ya had da chance!!!
ok den yinna tink i dus play................. i gern tuh bed man i gee

i guh put a tru-tru one on you

Firs tings firs...werk on da joke bizness...den da res guh fall in line...

WAIT WAIT!! Holl on bey, dat een no joke doe aye?:dgi:
LOL........OK!!!!!

ver is wicky, why wicky take down wicky pic. wicky, bigfrog1, spammy/rory need to stop frum pout n join us. icallin fa a sootin releaf fer dem n at da party brown suga is guest o' honor
LMAO!

I love our dialect. In its place there is no better way to express ourselves. As I have said before, I work in the tourism industry, I hear all manner of different dialects from various states in America and different parts of the world.
I am also well traveled. To our credit, most of us go overboard to either sound American or at least proper when conversing with guests.
I have NEVER had a server/employee/worker or even native from any country I've visited, attempt to make sure I understood their dialect.
I'm very well spoken :):) but when I get with my friends and family or here on BI where I am cumfouteble, ya carn beat my Bahamianese. Chile when some hear me fa troo, dey does say well gal ween kno you is talk like dat!! I is say, na looka here, ma gruma and grumpa had toilet and ting and grew up in da getto, but jess cos I ma education and ting een mean I een kno how ta get down. I does say I usta eat potcake and ting so I ain need ta be propa alla da time. You understan, I is a woman of digosity ya know.
I like that the Bahamian dialect alot also, When i was down there last April, I was looking for a book about Bahamian dialect; I did find something but what was in it I allready picked up from BI (Except "Suck teet" was'nt in the book, but I allready know what that means).

I'm not particularly fond of it, but it has it's place. I find it difficult and frustrating to read when there are more than 2 sentences loaded with it to that point that I can't imagine anyone actually speaking the words that are written/typed. I don't think that it should be used in schools. It is difficult enough to teach children standard English without confusing them by using dialect.

I "LOVES" IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the closest I can get to hearing Bahamians speak... and I am still waiting on someone to explain "sootin releaf"...i still don't get it :dgi:

ver is wicky, why wicky take down wicky pic. wicky, bigfrog1, spammy/rory need to stop frum pout n join us. icallin fa a sootin releaf fer dem n at da party brown suga is guest o' honor


Yardy you see dat eh? I guess we gattee pour out da grey goose for all our departed hommies(cause I een ger waste ma good baileys on der ground BOL)

u pourin out grey goose? de fack wrong wit yinna??

*snatches de goose from gen and replaces it wit a bokkle a ron ricardo white rum*

pour till ya heart contend!

u pourin out grey goose? de fack wrong wit yinna??

*snatches de goose from gen and replaces it wit a bokkle a ron ricardo white rum*

pour till ya heart contend!


BOL

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I'm not particularly fond of it, but it has it's place. I find it difficult and frustrating to read when there are more than 2 sentences loaded with it to that point that I can't imagine anyone actually speaking the words that are written/typed. I don't think that it should be used in schools. It is difficult enough to teach children standard English without confusing them by using dialect.
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so what you sayin is if ya washes in the east or the west super wash guh hook yu up:confused:

i remember when i lived in the united states and someone said i had an interesting accent
it dawned on me then i had one
that Bahamians have a unique sound
it was described to me - that i speak quickly and when i get mad there are basically no words that can be understood
i feel a sense of pride knowing that there is something uniquely Bahamian about me and identifiable
Jamaicans, Trinidad, Chinese all people have speech that makes them unique
and i think nothing is worse than to watch television and see someone speaking with a proper British accent representing the Bahamas
not that i view the British accent as bad but that i feel it is not a true representation of how we speak
growing up at a time when people traveled to the states for two days and came back with a 'merican accent - i'm proud to see more of us fully embracing who we are with no apologies
it is not a poor thing or class thing to speak bahamianese it is an embrace of who you are
thats how our parents spoke and we understand each other fully when we use it on this site because we grew up hearing it and speaking it ourselves
nothing wrong
with yinna, boongy, buuy , mudda sick and onliest they are all UNIQUELY Bahamian no other country does say boongy
so fa all the hater who i suspicious of in the first case - come like they een fully bahamain - cuz fully Bahamian understand fully Bahamian only johnny come latelies know a few words and stumble on the rest
but any how
i love all a y'all and tanks fa posting in ya wery best Bahamian

I fa one happens ta love our dyaleck. Dere are times when nuttin else will do ta capture da feelin an emotion ya tryin ta get across udder dan we own wernacular.

I also happen to understand when it is approporiate to use standard English. There is a time and place for both, fortunately for most of us on BI, we know when those times are. It is sad that some children never get a grasp on the English language and therfore never understand some things whether spoken/written in dialect or standard English.

I love da way we does pluralize tings by puttin dem on da en. I love words & phrases like hookle up, kerpunkle up, grabalishus dat jess cahn be replaced with an English translation and convey the same feelin.

I love how desrciptive we does get when describin' an ewent or person. "You know Miss Rolle ploppy eye son...no not dat one da hard red one she did had fa da conchy joe man" or "Buey dat concert was cayin on bad nah...LIVE!!!" or geein directions "Turn by da red light...trough Bappy bredda corner den go down 6 lamp poles an you ga see one broke down truck...doon turn dere...go owa tree speed bumps an ya ga see one big Dilly tree da one where Stinky, Killa an Choclit does play Dominoes when you get dere, jess ask one a dem ta show you whet I does live."

I applaud all of us on BI who keepin' Bahamianese alive and encourage all the Bahamian parents to raise your children to be bilingual.

An das jess my five cents!:)

Like Spam does like to say.........well conch bubby.

6 flikken pages a talkin bout we talk behin my back, i done miss all da axshun, wit Bishop an he proper english, yinna mak fox laff.

Facts Only is wait till i come off line to post des good post man, six pages later, yinna is doon sleep aye??

concerned gal u did it fer me in ur last post.

i is gern neva stop OUR talk its da bestest! :)