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TIL Jar Jar Binks wasn’t some alien species. He was just Jamacian.
In the words of Wayne Brady, “Meesa Jar Jar Binks! Meesa one big stereotype!”
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean Black accent. He’s a loser little titty baby.
til Jamaican has a special dialect that is kind of english
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).
got it Thanks!! I really didn’t know
‘The Harder They Come’, a popular Jamaican film, was referred to as “the first English-language film shown in the US with subtitles” due to thick Patois used in it. So there’s indeed pervasive confusion, but in the end Patois often just can’t be understood by English-speakers.
Fun fact: Patois developed starting in the seventeenth century, and mixes languages of West and Central Africa, used by the slaves, with British and Irish English and Scots, used by the slaveholders. Where Scots is itself a sister language of English, descended from Early Middle English.
im not even american. Maybe that’s why
Waahn ded
It is with great pleusre that I inform you this is real.
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
Reducing another culture to a form of entertainment isn’t very nice.
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.
I also find that pretty interesting. What’s your take away from this?
That the timeless eloquence of Wayne Brady abolishes all political and sociocultural differences.
The only timeless eloquence here is how some people have so little self-control that they cannot help but to incessantly criticizing others, regardless of how little their input is desired.
Technically the post is reducing another culture to a form of therapy
Upvote for your cheerful and optimistic view. Perhaps you’re right, and that the benefit outweighs any drawback.
