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.

LOVE IT!!!

I love Bahamian accents period. And I LOVE Bahamianese!!!!!

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.
:hammer: I witcha on dat!!!!

don't chya jes hate it wen beeheemians tink dey gatta talk 'up in dey nose' ta sound 'proper'... i hope u een one a dem up in toorism!!:cutie:

It's funny, after reading the James Catalyn thread, I re-read his poem "Bahamianese". It sums up how I feel about talkin Bahamian. As long as folks know when it is appropriate then there is absolutley nothing wrong with it.

Bahamianese

Is some words gern roun' dis nation
Somma us is afraid to say
We tink e would lower we life station
Sayin' tings der Bahamian way.

If cuteness was termed a disease
Mos' Bahamians would catch um, I know
Cause in our minds we mus' please
People from places we don' even know.

We radios don' wan' acknowledge
Dat Bahamianese is der ting
An' dey get yer more confuse up
Pronouncin' words soundin' like American.

We tounge already done tie up
Our W ge' mix up wit' V
Our T H ge' tie up and twis up
Wit der "T H" soun' come flyin' out as "T".

We can' say "gimme". Is "give me"
We can' say "yinna", is "yall"
We can' say "whichin" cause you see
We spokes more politely dan all.

We ge' "cross eye", "parrot toe", an' "plop eye"
An "big nose" an, "calm head" too
An when yer see someone wit, plenty backside
She ge' more dan enough "bungy" fer two.

Den is words like "big up" an, "swell up"
Das when yer in der fam'ly way
Den yer ge' "cut eye" an' "suck teet" an '
"stoke up"
If yer stick yer mout' in what udder people say.

Le's leave our cuteness behin' us
Le's be proud a our language, we own
An' if udders should laugh an' make fuss
As dem, if dey der Queen English own.

Le's show dem we could talk jes' like dem
Any time, anyplace dey name
But when we tergedder wit' each udder
We language is der name a der game.

Is time we be proud a we culture
Stick up your nose an' truly be pleased
To show udders we proud a we heritage
Das why we talkin' Bahamianese.

james j. catalyn (c)
altered, July 1996 (c)

Well as one who beleives in practicing proper Enlish at all time I find it dispicable when persons on this web site do major damage to the Queens English,and going forward I do wish that they would desist from doing so.

Well as one who beleives in practicing proper Enlish at all time I find it dispicable when persons on this web site do major damage to the Queens English,and going forward I do wish that they would desist from doing so.

rite....BOL :shaky:

Well as one who beleives in practicing proper Enlish at all time I find it dispicable when persons on this web site do major damage to the Queens English,and going forward I do wish that they would desist from doing so.

Boy iffen u dont shet ya teeth...ya gin know fa ya get light up in here

rite....BOL :shaky:


OR!!

Well as one who beleives in practicing proper Enlish at all time I find it dispicable when persons on this web site do major damage to the Queens English,and going forward I do wish that they would desist from doing so.



vhat dat is???

Boy iffen u dont shet ya teeth...ya gin know fa ya get light up in here
This is exactly what i speak of. I find it quit dispicable when person such as yourself masacar the Queens launguage, have you people no proper schools in your districts. i cry shame on all of you who do a diservices to the english launguage

Well as one who beleives in practicing proper Enlish at all time I find it dispicable when persons on this web site do major damage to the Queens English,and going forward I do wish that they would desist from doing so.
Excuse me good sir, but would you like me to translate the epistle that you have just scribed into a true representation of the official language of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, her nation and dependencies?

vhat dat is???
You can smite my slight misspeling all you want but it still does not take away from persons like yourself who no better but refuse to do better.
There is a generation of young bahamains that are looking to you for direction yet you will not speak nor will you right proper i cry shame on all of you.

:hammer: I witcha on dat!!!!

don't chya jes hate it wen beeheemians tink dey gatta talk 'up in dey nose' ta sound 'proper'... i hope u een one a dem up in toorism!!:cutie:

Actually I am "ONE A DEM." I carn hep it, came from reading alla ma life and exposure. But fa me speaking properly comes as natural as speaking Bahamianese. I does jess fall into rit an ain know how or when.

Na when i rowing or vex...chile ain get no time ta be finin the rite werds and ting. The Bahamianese and the Jungaese does jess tek ova. AND!! I'm good at it.:)

Do I love it? Not really, but that is how it is. There is little we can, or perhaps should, do about it other that make sure we have a record of it because as more and more peoples from other lands settle here we are at risk of losing it.

Well as one who beleives in practicing proper Enlish at all time I find it dispicable when persons on this web site do major damage to the Queens English,and going forward I do wish that they would desist from doing so.


I must say that when some of the members here write in strong Bahamian dialect, I dont bother to read it half the time. Its just rather difficult to understand, and this is coming from someone that is born and bred Bahamian.