You know you're Jamaican when....
....you pluralize all your nouns with the term "dem"
ex. singular: the dog
plural: the dog dem
Listen to Ms Lou tell us more about the Jamaican dialect!
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ReplyDeleteEx. Mi neva wah wake yuh cause yuh did ah draw boongie
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ReplyDeleteI remember vividly one day telling my mom my chest hurt, rather than taking me to the doctor, she just said go drink some tea. I shook my head, but did as I was told, and you know what? The pain in my chest went away.