tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post110589281136137145..comments2023-10-31T04:56:53.741-04:00Comments on Doan Mind Me: Dem got muh chippingJdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1140863865762190462006-02-25T05:37:00.000-05:002006-02-25T05:37:00.000-05:00I work with special needs monday to friday and I w...I work with special needs monday to friday and I work with behaviour children in DSP<BR/>Thank you<BR/>Jenna stewartAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106141262494428942005-01-19T08:27:00.000-05:002005-01-19T08:27:00.000-05:00Bwoy, Jdid, you right about the dances still... I'...Bwoy, Jdid, you right about the dances still... I'm from Jamaica and <B>I</B> don't know that many of them either! Still, I beg to differ... the Trinis have many dances, check out swinging engine, dollah wine, the Iwer dance etc... you are right though, come marching time its just chip, chip, chipping and you chipping and you chip... <br />By the way, all fruits ripe? dat is one old, old saying, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106099920589896102005-01-18T20:58:00.000-05:002005-01-18T20:58:00.000-05:00uh...what?uh...what?summer of samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07104085798565882996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106085976705283962005-01-18T17:06:00.000-05:002005-01-18T17:06:00.000-05:00Jdid, Summa Bounce is kinda like de old Urkel danc...Jdid, Summa Bounce is kinda like de old Urkel dance, but relax your posture more and don't do that likkle 'toe-tap pose' in front like in de Urkel.Melodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17271981906103654797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106075473755141622005-01-18T14:11:00.000-05:002005-01-18T14:11:00.000-05:00JDid, the languages are a trip. I had to learn a f...JDid, the languages are a trip. I had to learn a few of the Caribbean expressions because I was in customer service years ago and had to deal with banks across the region so you had to learn some of the dialects. Do you realize that we tend to write a lot like how we speak. So our blogs have the flavour of the islands we represent. I know I write patois from time to time and I see it in yours, Scratchiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01651533314898887884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106071800429801662005-01-18T13:10:00.000-05:002005-01-18T13:10:00.000-05:00Jidid you sure know to put up good topics.
1) Two ...Jidid you sure know to put up good topics.<br />1) Two coco bread and a patty, man you musse got a rel tuff stomach, personally I woulda negotiate fuh some jerk fish.<br /><br />2) You sure right about the language and differnt words used for the same thing. Having lived in Brooklyn, NY for donkey years, I also can identify with the different words and can use dem accordingly. The accents alsoCampfyahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048400293665655823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106065824149002572005-01-18T11:30:00.000-05:002005-01-18T11:30:00.000-05:00wigit I think any caribbean person who spends enou...wigit I think any caribbean person who spends enough time in Toronto picks up a bit of all the west indian slangs so that it becomes this confusing hybrid. my latest word to be incorporated into my vocabulary is 'allya' from the trinis and my latest phrase is 'all fruits ripe!' from the jamaicans. sumbody soon look at me an say 'wha all fruits ripe you talkin bout, um is winter an the trees aint Jdidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106063144293273732005-01-18T10:45:00.000-05:002005-01-18T10:45:00.000-05:00Boy the only thing I can't get used to over in the...Boy the only thing I can't get used to over in the western world is the cold. It too cold!!!!! I hit a -28C when I went to work in Sweden two years ago. man I stayed three days and ran. couldnt function, nose running, terminal shutdown.<br /><br />lol at the chipping dance. went a trini bar last year called, suprisingly, the "trini bar". My friend broke down the chipping thingy and we were chromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17338912618994331113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106061328745520522005-01-18T10:15:00.000-05:002005-01-18T10:15:00.000-05:00yea melody summer bounce? I dont think I know how ...yea melody summer bounce? I dont think I know how to do that heard the song but aint see the dance.<br />abeni man every island have different names for everything. lolJdidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106056807612762792005-01-18T09:00:00.000-05:002005-01-18T09:00:00.000-05:00And the mames for some the fruits and vegetables s...And the mames for some the fruits and vegetables so different too.What we call golden apple,Trinis call pommecytere(sp),plumrose Jcans call apple and Trinis pommerac.When I say am having callalloo soup Jcans watch me strange because they call spinach callaloo while for us in the EC callaloo is dasheen leaves.I told a Jcan friend I preferred mauby to sorrel and he had no clue what I was talking Abenihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08560160141820956066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-1106056737935388572005-01-18T08:58:00.000-05:002005-01-18T08:58:00.000-05:00Language is a love ov mine too, Jdid. And dance!! ...Language is a love ov mine too, Jdid. And dance!! "Out of one people, many . . ." (lol) Good one. Ah doan know de new dance, but mi still doin' de Chaplin an' de Summa Bunx (or Summer Bounce, as mi cousin woulda say).Melodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17271981906103654797noreply@blogger.com