People Know You're Jamaican If...... - Jamaica Talk

HONEYPYE · #1 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:01 PM

People know you are Jamaican if ..........

You can distinguish between "cocoa-tea" "bush-tea" and"green-tea".
When someone sympathizes with you, you comment "Yuh tink seh it easy?"
You point with your lips.
You can't say "three" or "thing" ... you say "tree" and "ting".
You say words like Heg (instead of Egg); Hingland (instead of England).
You give directions with your hands, even if it is in another state.
You go to parties for the food and drink and then cuss afterwards when the food and drink run out.
You nod your head upwards to greet someone.
You always find yourself standing next to plenty of luggage and boxes at the airport.
When you travel home, you bring an extra suitcase going down, it has none of your clothes; returning, it has food.
You also point to other people picking their nose.
You hate to throw away empty containers as they might come in handy for pepper sauce or "green seasonings".
You have one big pot you call curry pot when you are not even cooking curry.
You have another pot you called dutch pot.
You say "boy" at the beginning of a sentence and "man" at the end of it.
You always hang something on your rearview mirror.
You put pepper sauce on everything for the taste.
You think eating ackee and saltfish, plaintain and fried dumplings is a great morning breakfast.
You can't go a week without a rice dish.
You think steak is a waste of good meat; you would rather cut it up and stew it with potatoes.
You chew and suck out all the marrow from the chicken bone and then pick out your teeth afterwards.
You save all juices from the cooked meats/chicken to use for flavour for your next dish.
You wash and rinse plastic utensils and cups that can be used again.
You bring home food from a party (enough for your breakfast the next morning, your lunch and your dinner!)
You chew the ice when you finish your drinks.
You must put dumplings in all soups.
You show disapproval by sucking your teeth.
You have a dishwasher in the house and only use it for special occasions.
At Christmas, you have to have "black cake".
You have a thyme (or mint) bush growing somewhere in your yard.

LuvJamaicanMen · #2 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:03 PM

gyal yuh mek mi y'eye a wata....

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO.. it true nu rahtid..

HONEYPYE · #3 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:05 PM

bwoy we Jamaicans different to bak-foot!!!!

LuvJamaicanMen · #4 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:10 PM

yuh know it gyal
especial the one when wi point wid mi mouth

We just a very expressive set ah people.....

gi direction wid wi han...even if it's in another state...

LOLOLOLOLOL

HONEYPYE · #5 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:16 PM

di suitcase ting is so true, sometimes dem a jus goh down fi 2 weeks and av two big suitcase(ar grip as som still call it) and a box+ hand luggage.

JamCan · #6 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:17 PM

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You say words like Heg (instead of Egg); Hingland (instead of England).

I've always wanted to know why this is???

I naturally do about half of those tings.....so i'm half way to being all the way.....whatever that just meant! LOL

LuvJamaicanMen · #7 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:21 PM

hey jamcan..mi tink yuh ah jumaican inna yuh previous life....

as fi di heg and hingland...ah soh wi chat when wi waan sond proper

HONEYPYE · #8 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 05:32 PM

yu evah here som a dem speaky~spoky Jamaicans dem who a try really hard fi not speak patois an dem words sound jus FOOLISH? lol lol

paz · #9 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HONEYPYE

People know you are Jamaican if ..........

You can distinguish between "cocoa-tea" "bush-tea" and"green-tea".
When someone sympathizes with you, you comment "Yuh tink seh it easy?"
You point with your lips.
You can't say "three" or "thing" ... you say "tree" and "ting".
You say words like Heg (instead of Egg); Hingland (instead of England).
You give directions with your hands, even if it is in another state.
You go to parties for the food and drink and then cuss afterwards when the food and drink run out.
You nod your head upwards to greet someone.
You always find yourself standing next to plenty of luggage and boxes at the airport.
When you travel home, you bring an extra suitcase going down, it has none of your clothes; returning, it has food.
You also point to other people picking their nose.
You hate to throw away empty containers as they might come in handy for pepper sauce or "green seasonings".
You have one big pot you call curry pot when you are not even cooking curry.
You have another pot you called dutch pot.
You say "boy" at the beginning of a sentence and "man" at the end of it.
You always hang something on your rearview mirror.
You put pepper sauce on everything for the taste.
You think eating ackee and saltfish, plaintain and fried dumplings is a great morning breakfast.
You can't go a week without a rice dish.
You think steak is a waste of good meat; you would rather cut it up and stew it with potatoes.
You chew and suck out all the marrow from the chicken bone and then pick out your teeth afterwards.
You save all juices from the cooked meats/chicken to use for flavour for your next dish.
You wash and rinse plastic utensils and cups that can be used again.
You bring home food from a party (enough for your breakfast the next morning, your lunch and your dinner!)
You chew the ice when you finish your drinks.
You must put dumplings in all soups.
You show disapproval by sucking your teeth.
You have a dishwasher in the house and only use it for special occasions.
At Christmas, you have to have "black cake".
You have a thyme (or mint) bush growing somewhere in your yard.

Hey! HoneyPye.. you wrote them all ..lol
here's one you forgot ..
In a crowded airport.. the woman with di 2 hats on her head (1 for Winston 1 for Gilbert)

(just joking now, don't take any offense)

Princessblack · #10 (**permalink**) 06-10-2004, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by JamCan

I've always wanted to know why this is???

Anything that have a 'h' in it or in front you know we dont pronounce. Like....holiday-aliday or happy-appy

And words beginning with a vowel like...egg and eager...we add the 'h'...heg and heager.

"th' are t...things- tings
"some th turns into 'd'....them-dem or they- dey or to pluralize words... the girls..de gal dem.

I guess it is just all about de patois...why we say the things we say JC. Peace

Tia · #11 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 12:52 AM

i remember my mom and i asking a woman at the craft market where we could find a hammock. we had to keep repeating "hammock" to her and finally she said, "oh, yu mean ammock!" it was so funny.

HONEYPYE · #12 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 08:09 AM

no *paz* this is not my creation though we have all experienced some of this or seen our parents do some of these things???

my fingers did the copy and paste thing lol lol lol

paz · #13 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HONEYPYE

no *paz* this is not my creation though we have all experienced some of this or seen our parents do some of these things???

my fingers did the copy and paste thing lol lol lol

Nice thread though .. I told mi husband what I wrote ,
he said "yu muma" ..I should of said West Indian not Ja. ...
touchy, isn't he.

HONEYPYE · #14 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 09:02 AM

well can't blame im still he just LOVE's his country!!!

paz · #15 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by HONEYPYE
no *paz* this is not my creation though we have all experienced some of this or seen our parents do some of these things???

my fingers did the copy and paste thing lol lol lol

Nice thread though .. I told mi husband what I wrote ,
he said "yu muma" ..I should of said West Indian not Ja. ...
touchy, isn't he.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HONEYPYE

well can't blame im still he just LOVE's his country!!!

..... let me "nip it on the butt " my response of the 2 hats, was in jest, I saw skit on it, by the comedian Oliver
I shared my hubby's response to me, with you, because I thought it was funny... nough said

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