“Patois is any language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. It can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects, and other forms of native or local speech, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant. Class distinctions are embedded in the term, drawn between those who speak patois and those who speak the standard or dominant language.”
IN ORDER TO READ THIS POST…GO DOWN TO THE MUSIC PLAYER ON THE RIGHT AND HIT PAUSE. THEN YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE VIDEOS…SORRY!
Did you understand THAT???
OR
Did it SEEM like another language??????
Well……….
Its ENGLISH.
Patois.
A Jamaican dialect.
I hear people say ALL THE TIME that they CAN’T understand reggae music.
They can FEEL it …they just cant understand the words.
Like this:
SEE!!!!!
Sometimes you CAN understand it.
SOMETIMES you CAN’T.
BUT…YOU CAN DEFINANTLY FEEL IT!!!
The more you listen to reggae music …
the easier it is.
I could tell you EVERY WORD of this song.
(If your interested..leave a comment LOL)
BUT…that is because we listen to REGGAE music.
ALL THE TIME.
EVERYDAY.
EVERYNIGHT.
The kids have GROWN up listening to REGGAE music.
We add in some blues and JAZZ.
But MAINLY…Its REGGAE.
Its pretty much the main STAPLE around here…musically.
PROOF:
When I was about 8 months pregnant with Zeek, Jay and I went to see our friend DJ….
He was spinning TECHO music (so I already had a pretty good idea that we weren't staying long.)
ANYWAY….
When we got there we said HELLO and stood off to the side.
About 5 minutes in…Zeek started FREAKING OUT.
In the WOMB.
He was kicking me and moving around soooooo much that I was in PAIN!!!!
SERIOUS PAIN!
“I DO NOT LIKE THIS MUSIC” pain!
Needless to say….we left.
I took it as a sign.
LOL
ANYWAY….
The other day I was cooking dinner and Shasha was sitting at the kitchen table coloring .
We were listening to music when she asked me SOMETHING about the song that was on.
She wanted to know WHY they were saying something.
What she was asking wasn’t as important to me at the moment as the fact that SHE could UNDERSTAND the words.
I asked her…”Shasha- can you UNDERSTAND what he is saying?”
She looked at me TOTALLY CONFUSED and said, “Yes, why?”
It was so EYE-OPENING.
I started laughing and thought , “I wonder if PATOIS can count as our 2nd language?”
LOL….
Probably not…sadly enough.
But to me ….THIS HOUSE IS BILINGUAL!!!!!!
Love and Light…….
I
