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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!”
A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.
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
di copypasta
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I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.
I’m not even a native speaker and it still works.
It is with great pleusre that I inform you this is real.
Waahn ded
Daaaaay-oh!
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
Dey eet da poopoo
Hawaiian Pidgin is also pretty damn funny. Look up “Da Jesus Book”.
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.
Nice? No. Entertaining? … … Ok yeah it is.
I’m pretty sure this means that we agree.
yeah that’s just racism
How is translating a sentence racism? Clutch your pearls harder
are you saying this to bait me or are you so obtuse as to think it’s the translating part i have an issue with, and not the “haha look this language is so silly! 🤣 this is better than therapy! 🤣” part
Found a racist who doesn’t want to look inward and think a dialect existing is racist because it sounds silly to them.
It’s called a creole language. An even simpler version is a pidgin language (there’s an example posted in one of the comments). Creole is usually a more evolved pidgin. Developed by children of creole speakers.
i am aware of what creoles and pidgins are, yes. making fun of them is racism.
The post is mocking a language, not the people who speak it. It may be in poor taste, but its not racist.
Did you say the same thing about the Dutch Jar-Jar meme?
you just don’t know shit
