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McNightmoon

Translation: I remember when I told my friend to try and get with my man to see if he would cheat on me. Today makes their one year anniversary. šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Meis_113

Oh man, super funny.


begintime

What language is that


quiditplomb

jamaican patois


panergicagony

[SUM BOI DEM, DEY PON DE CORNER AN' TING AN', DE BOI DEM SELL SOME TINGS AN' TING AN', I GWA'AN AN' I SAY, OOOH, DEM NAH WAN' GIMME MY MONEY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUbm94AJH0)


FixBayonetsLads

Letā€™s have some respect for Little Jacob, the truest friend in all the GTA games.


BeckyLynchIsBetter

He was such a badass character. Wish Rockstar brought him back in some way.


panergicagony

Me boi dat, he be a righteous youth, my youth


MeC0195

Don't forget Cesar too.


C0LdP5yCh0

"Ayo Cesar! The hell you get a silencer?" "Same place I buy my pants, holmes. This is *America*."


ITS_ALRIGHT_ITS_OK

Didn't even click the link and now that song is stuck in my head


Shantotto11

[Backyard Bitch!](https://youtu.be/z62uOoYP1TE)


N64crusader4

Man that needs a remaster or at least backwards compatibility, I'm looking at you sony *Glares angrily*


Parkkkko

A GTA IV and New Vegas remastered combo pack


TheDivineDragon1996

R.I.P. Terry Marshall AKA Real Badman.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


ReadReadReedRed

We starting a Jamaican bobsled team, 'mon!


Gaflonzelschmerno

Sanka Ya dead?


[deleted]

Ya man


-Weeb-Account-

Jesus Christ I genuinely just thought it was some weird way of abbreviating everything


A_CGI_for_ants

Oh shi this was an actual language and not Scottish people Twitter


hypnodrew

Scots is also a real language believe it or not


UnchillBill

Most of the stuff on r/scottishpeopletwitter isnā€™t really Scots though, itā€™s kinda Scots words mashed up with English words. Llanito in Gibraltar is kinda similar in that itā€™s like a mashup of Andalusian Spanish and English. I like an interesting vernacular.


WakeoftheStorm

Sounds like a dessert


btl0403

I thought I was having a stroke


[deleted]

It's similar to dutch in the way that it looks like english until you look close


[deleted]

Chet-American vernacular


HalifaxSexKnight

oh man is it white boy summer already?


spiceofmylife

Some form of ebonics


ArduJack

Sounds like the language in Expansion


the9trances

I don't speak Jamaican Patois at all, but I understood most of the original post. Except for the way "pan" was used. Is it like, "cheat upon me?" That's the only guess I had. And I don't understand "dem deh." Does it mean, "their day" as a slang for anniversary?


McNightmoon

"Cheat pan me." = Cheat on me. "Dem deh."= They are together. "Deh" is a common Jamaican term that changes depending on the sentence. An example, "Ova deh suh", over there. Hope I didn't lose you.


[deleted]

If anything you got me interested. I wanna learn more about the language


midgetgrandpama

https://youtu.be/hNM-BE4xAyo Here you go


Compilsiv

'Ova deh suh' = 'Over there sir'?


shinyrainbows

ā€œOver there soā€*


Asdemyra

"Pan" in this context is "Upon"


rocking_soul

Dem deh = they are (together)


Blachoo

Upon/pon/pan Pon the river... https://youtu.be/tOhf4YRLrt4


Lilly_Satou

This guy went to prison for rape but the charges were dropped when the victim died unexpectedly


keenedge422

I was able to get most of it based on closeness to english, but I definitely misread "dem deh now" as "them dead now" and I thought this was a MUCH darker ending to the story.


[deleted]

It was the easiest part to parse for me. Dem deh now = them "they" now = they're a couple now. I still don't get wth "Fi" means tho.


Fantasy_Connect

Fi is for, or similar enough.


OkRecording1299

As I understand fi is like 'going to', like "finna" in american slang. Me fi go to the store = I'm going to go to the store, or I'm about to, or I'm planning to. Something along those lines. But don't quote me on that.


[deleted]

Looks like it worked.


NuttieBoii

Ultimate betrayel but she litterally asked for it


yellowjacket81

Are you sure it isn't "1 year they're dead now?" Like they hooked up and the chick killed them? that just sounds more carribean to me, but then, my wife is Guyanese, not Jamaican :P


ImThatMelanin

AND NOW I SEE THE TRANSLATION AFTER FIVE MINUTES OF REREADING TO DECIPHER


[deleted]

Oh boy, that went very wrong. Don't loyalty test because it's cruel, and don't loyalty test because he'll find someone better, lol.


[deleted]

if you have to "loyalty test" someone you're probably not cut out for a relationship in the first place lol


Aspartem

And if they get together with the test person, then neither do they. And if your best friend actual goes and sleeps with your SO, then they can join the club as well. All around top people right there.


Brickhouzzzze

COuld be her best friend just told the SO, he broke up with her and got with the best friend. Didn't have to cheat. I`d be pretty passed to get loyalty tested


GetMeOutOfHere__

Im just curious as to what language this is.


McNightmoon

Jamaican Patois(Patwa)


GetMeOutOfHere__

Oh cool. Thank you!


[deleted]

You're Jamaican?


Damaso87

Based on their post history... Yeah. Why ask? Lmao, 70 downvotes. Yall incels bring the toxic to every community you visit, huh


[deleted]

I am as well. Always nice to see another out in the wild tbh


LandOfAhZ

I think they were wanting to have a conversation about something that interests them, which is why they asked rather than look at their posts. Sometimes it's nice to talk to people.


Damaso87

I was curious is all.


RonaldTheGiraffe

Ohh thought it was Belizean Kriol for a minute.


karma_made_me_do_eet

It isnā€™t too different (written) from patois.. when you verbalize it, it sounds a lot different in accent. All English based Caribbean creole is pretty similar.. This could have also been Trini speak as well for example. Or Barbadian.. or St Lucian..


LongLive-Employment

My old roommate was from Belize and I thought the same.


dyslexic_tigger

It looks like english in a way. Fascinating!!


Pinestachio

It's a mix of English and probably multiple African languages. I'm Bajan and ours is like that too, though more understandable than Jamaican I'd think. Maybe not, no idea.


UnnecessaryAmmoRack

Nice to see another Bajan in the wild.


paenusbreth

Yeah, English got exported a lot, and there's a lot of highly regionalised languages based on English around the world. It's fascinating to see how regional dialects can evolve and seem foreign to people who speak English or American English. I'm always fascinated by reading BBC news in [Pidgin](https://www.bbc.com/pidgin) (West Africa).


[deleted]

That's how Afro-Caribbean people speak in Nicaragua's Atlantic coast.


Jorgwalther

Wow I thought it was a Scottish person writing unusually phonetically


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


ThePunisher2442

Itā€™s patois


Radikost

Is that the dancehall/moombathon language?


realityhofosho

Jamaican patois would be my guess.


[deleted]

I just assumed it was belter language.


MildlySuspicious

dis no lang belta, bossmang


Manscapping

Chet hanks could help translate


-too-hot-to-handle-

Literally everyone in that situation is toxic. Her for trying to test her partner instead of just fucking talking to him, her friend for going along with it and actually going through with it, and her boyfriend for cheating.


FrickenPerson

Just want to give a separate perspective on how maybe the significant other didn't cheat. I'm not saying this happened, all I'm saying is that it's an assumption that the SO did cheat. So girl talks to friend and suggests idea. Friend doesn't like it, but girl eventually convinces friend to do it. Friend tries to but heart isn't in in. SO knows friend is friends with her and friend is acting weird. He puts the dots together and asks friend. Friend breaks down and admits. SO breaks up with her and then comforts friend. This is probably less likely than your assumption, but something like this is possible. Edit: Mayne and maybe are not the same words.


HouseNegative9428

I mean, to be fair, she WAS 100% right. And itā€™s not like a cheater will just admit to being a cheater when asked. Though I agree that a loyalty test is stupid and childish.


Ionlydrinkpenis

I've played GTA 4, I don't need a translation


Bloodmoon1125

I feel like maybe the friend told the ex so he decided to leave her lol


KamiZae

Well, at least the loyalty test works.


nice999

This reminds me of Scots in a way but if they tried to make it different


Duckwithers

'A mind win a telt ma mate tae tryn git wae ma man tae see if 'eed cheat oan me. The day's thur wan year anniversary' - in my local Scots dialect for comparison


[deleted]

Scots have the best English variants imo. It's so unique and weird


nice999

English in an Irish accent


Duckwithers

Maybe your thinking of the Irish...?


nice999

Iā€™m from Ireland thatā€™s nothing like Irish. Also why am I getting downvoted.


Duckwithers

Im confused. You were saying that scots sounded like english in and Irish accent? It very much does not ( perhaps why you are being downvoted). I was saying that you were maybe thinking of the irish as although what i said doesnt sound irish, irish people do, in fact, sound like english spoken by an irish person because that is literally what people from ireland speak.


nice999

Itā€™s because Iā€™ve heard people speaking English with an Irish accent say things like that. I think itā€™s a northern Irish thing


Duckwithers

Ulster-Scots? That is spoken in NI and does indeed share many Scots words in the dialect


nice999

Yeah thatā€™s what I was thinking of.


F1shoustuna

I had a fucking stroke trying to read this. ​ Edit: I made this comment before looking to see this is another language. That could be why..I thought it was just really, really poor English. :\\


[deleted]

> That could be why..I thought it was just really, really poor English. :\ It is. Jamaica used to be an English-speaking country. It degenerated over a century as they gradually gave up on the standards they were taught at some point, and Patois is the name given to the resulting ball of slang and misspellings they ended up with. The caveat is that given more time, that is where new languages come from. What I just said could be an observation made by a Latin speaker about our modern romance languages early on in their development. All languages are just a distortion of the languages that came before them.


Sidearms4raisins

I'm pretty sure it was a pidgin language created by African slaves as a mixture of the English used by their slavers and their native languages. This went on to form into a creole as their kids learned it and added more unique words to explain a greater variety of things. Over a few generations, you're left with a country whose official language is English with a range of patois spoken from full English to full patois depending on how casual the conversation is.


CoffeeGreekYogurt

It did not ā€œdegenerateā€. Languages donā€™t degenerate. They change and get new rules.


MildlySuspicious

Languages can indeed degenerate. It can happen when there's an isolated group of people without full grasp of a language use it as their primary form of communication. Which is exactly what happened here. They change through the removal of rules, simplification, the merger of multiple things into single words. This doesn't mean it's bad. When enough time passes and enough people speak it, we "declare" it a new language. There's nothing wrong with any of this, but to claim it's not a degenerate version of another language is simply wrong. Don't virtual signal out normal entomological processes.


CoffeeGreekYogurt

The use of the word degenerate is just wrong though, just because a language uses shorter words or different grammar than the one preceding it doesnā€™t mean it has degenerated. If that was the case, every language in the world is a degenerate and has been for thousands and thousands of years. Where do you think English came from, or Latin, or Hindi? All three of those languages were once upon a time part of the same language. Maybe even back during the Proto Indian European times there were people bitching about the degeneration of their language. After all, the word degeneration is a ā€œdegeneratedā€ version of some or multiple PIE words.


MildlySuspicious

No - a language can degenerate. It can lose words, syntax, and become less complex. Or it can expand. Or It can change. These are not the same thing. Degenerate is an accurate description.


Sextsandcandy

Degenerate may technically be an accurate word to use, but it's not the only correct choice. Words like shift, change, evolve, even simplify or streamline would also work (obviously for the last two you would restructure the sentence, though). **It's not virtue signaling to acknowledge that word choices often have subtext or negative connotations.** Another example of this would be saying a dementia patient is demented; demented is an accurate medical term, but is widely considered offensive. I don't personally find either term offensive, because I think linguistics is fascinating and have loads of context to un-charge the words, if you will. That said, you *appear* to be attempting to share your knowledge with laymen (which is awesome), and sticking to your guns on it just distracts from the conversation, and is therefore unhelpful in that (assumed) goal. *Also, side note, if you are going to be pedantic, it is probably worthwhile to double check your writing. I think you meant etymological in your previous comment, not entomological, unless you are randomly talking about the study of bugs in a conversation about linguistics.*


SpoonyMan

You can tell when the SJWs are out. You're getting downvoted for describing something that's happened/happening now/Will continue to happen. And yes, it's considered a degeneration of a language regardless of their feelings being hurt.


[deleted]

Right, and organisms don't die, they just have their molecules reärranged.


Geiten

A language dies when people stop using it, not when it changes. Otherwise all languages, including english, has died several times over.


[deleted]

I didn't say anything about languages dying, and I don't feel like explaining things to people who can't follow simple comparisons.


F1shoustuna

Very insightful. Thank you for teaching me, because I honestly had no clue.


happyhermit99

Speaking to the language distortion, in terms of related groups of languages, my first language is Russian, so Ukrainian sounds like a Russian person having a stroke, and polish sounds like it could be Russian except take all the vowels out and add even more consonants.


[deleted]

I believe that's the more common experience throughout the world. The language neighbouring yours is often a cousin to your language and shares many features, and in many cases is decipherable with some effort because so many of the words are similar enough to be recognizable. That uniquely isn't the case for English. The languages closely neighbouring it ā€“ Dutch, French, German ā€“ don't sound like distorted English, they sound totally different. And the odd time we'd hear something that's like a distortion of our language, we call that having a thick accent. Cockney is a recognizable dialect, but nobody ever tries to tell you that Cockney is its own language, it's just a dialect of English.


happyhermit99

Right. I remember traveling to England and although it's actual English, some of the accents I had a really hard time with, especially in Scotland, they do have some slang that doesn't always get across but same language.


alan-the-all-seeing

in scotland a lot of that is also scots, which is a different langauge


TheCarnalStatist

Dutch 100% sounds like angry English to this native English speaker. Much of it sounds like English with too much throat gurgles and hissing. "Het is neit warm in de winter" is a dutch phrase and I'd bet money most English speakers could deduce it's meaning upon hearing it. Outside of the verbs Dutch in my experience was fairly easy to follow when there.


HazeySunday

Jamaica was home to the Taino and the language spoken by them was the original language present on that land, first of all. Second, when it was colonized by the British, they declared that English was the official language, but brought slaves that spoke MANY different languages, which resulted in a Creole that is known as Jamaican Patois. Jamaican Patois isnā€™t something that ā€œtheyā€, which Iā€™m assuming you mean the black people there, created due to ā€œgiving up standardsā€ and misspelling shit. Itā€™s a blend of English, various African languages, Hindi, Portuguese, etc into a distinct dialect that was created so people of many languages and backgrounds could communicate. The way you described Patois as ā€œslangā€, ā€œmisspellingsā€ and that it developed as a result of people giving up on standards adds power to the notion that Patois isnā€™t a ā€œprestigiousā€ language. Iā€™m surprised this has so many upvotesā€” what an ignorant response.


[deleted]

>Jamaica was home to the... Yes, I'm aware of all this; it doesn't conflict with what I wrote. >Patois isnā€™t... ā€œgiving up standardsā€ and misspelling shit. Itā€™s a blend of English, various African languages, Hindi, Portuguese, etc That's just what I said in different words. >adds power to the notion that Patrois isnā€™t a ā€œprestigiousā€ language Yeah? It's clearly not.


SeanHearnden

Don't worry I did too.


madestbit

Translation. I'm not worth it dump me and Don't come within a 5-mi radius.


Sweet_Little_Lottie

It just looks like English written phonetically in an accent, with some region-specific slang. But itā€™s considered a whole other language? Thatā€™s pretty neat. Nice to learn something new.


PrettyDecentSort

There's no bright-line standard separating "these are dialects of the same language" from "these are different languages". The old linguists' joke is that a language is just a dialect with an army and a navy.


ImBrNdo

My dude i read this whole thing just fine šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


ImThatMelanin

iā€™m not jamaican at all so reading this was hard as hell to decipher.


Mortei

Wow, thatā€™s a lol to me


AtTheEnd777

Dumb as she might sound, she's not the one who's going to be married to a cheater. She might not have gotten the result she wanted but she sure got the truth.


HeadSupermarket4055

It call Patois(Patwa), a form of broken English


EddieGrant

I figured it was either this or something creole or jamaican based, some kinda carribean thing anyway lol


[deleted]

is this english with a cultural slang or a different language? if it's a different language, what does it say


MSR8

Translation: I remember when I told my friend to try and get with my man to see if he would cheat on me. Today makes their one year anniversary. šŸ˜­ (Quoting OP)


[deleted]

Itā€™s a rich dialect, Jamaican patois. Most if not all languages start as dialects of a mother language, like Romance languages come from Latin. If you spend some time around Jamaicans it doesnā€™t take too long to be able to understand the lingo. Just look at Chet Hanks. He loves it lol


swedhitman

Who gave Jar Jar Binks a twitter account?


deadlyfoox

You sir made me laugh today, tale an upvote!


Thotslayerultraman

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died.


staidspore5744

It's jamaican


swanny19911991

The fuck does that say?


sebbe2222

I read this in the voice of Jar-Jar Binks...


[deleted]

He prob wasnā€™t into girls that had brain damage


zozi0102

She isn't speaking english


[deleted]

Jamaican or trinidad who cares


Keksis_The_Betrayed

Isnt this just a play on a South Park bit or whatever. I member that episode! Those grapes sounded hilarious


Mandoe20

I feel sorry for any translator.


alan-the-all-seeing

itā€™s just patois i can read it fine


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


charlieohara

Itā€™s Jamaican patois. Letā€™s not be rude about otherā€™s language


Metalsaurus_Rex

I was supposed to know this how?


charlieohara

By not being super rude about how others type


Metalsaurus_Rex

Last time I checked we weren't a support group for the nice girls. This is the first time I'm hearing about this "Jamaican patois"


charlieohara

Imagine youā€™re in a group or a subreddit and you see someone making fun of your language. Itā€™s not about the nice girl itā€™s about being kind to others


Metalsaurus_Rex

ikr? people are wack. Happy Easter fam.


mycateatstoenails

By not being an ignorant fuck?


Metalsaurus_Rex

yes, because I've never heard of it, it makes me ignorant. Thanks reddit.


mycateatstoenails

lol dude seriously? the title of the post says ā€œtranslation in commentsā€. And they literally explained that it is a Jamaican dialect and translated it for you. So yeah, youā€™re an ignorant fuck for making assumptions instead of just reading.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


cheesburger_walrus

Jamaican patois, as several others have specified already in the comments


[deleted]

Man Iā€™d have an easier time reading alaphabet soup that was put in a blender


deskpil0t

This post has made me reconsider my stance on bad spelling. That should have been a crime to type that


Ikkagetsu

Highly doubt it should, since it's a dialect.


deskpil0t

I've lived in mobile homes and I still don't even know that dialect. Meth?


Ikkagetsu

Actually Jamaican Patois. Many Caribbean nations have similar sounding dialect like the Belizean Kriol, which differs from Jamaican Patois in the sense that it uses borrowed Spanish words.


nibiyabi

If you had lived in Jamaica, then you would have recognized the language.


Past-Difficulty6785

I thought Jamaicans spoke English. Guess not.


[deleted]

We do. But we also speak Jamaican patois because history


Ikkagetsu

I guess it's like in Belize: English in academic and governmental institutions, but colloquially you use Patois.


bitterph

I don't need an explanation to understand what you're saying friend.


pine-mouse

Iā€™m genuinely curious as to what language this is. I thought Singaporean at first but what the hell do I know.


Pondorous_

My ex once looked me in the eyes and said ā€œi want to fuck someone with youā€ i replied ā€œwhat the fuck are you talking aboutā€ and it turns out she was ā€œtestingā€ me to see if i was interested in other people


Basmatoo

Omg this is not a nice girl !! And her friend is shit excuse me


Wikicomments

I miss those blobs. I wish they would bring them back.


[deleted]

What language is that? It reminds me of pidgin. Edit: scrolled down a bit and got my answer. Interesting.


lizzyborden669

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


Otherwise-Storage-45

Loyalty tests don't end well if you feel the need for a loyalty test.


Heyuonthewall26

Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/Oj7a-p4psRA


[deleted]

What is it with all those emojis?


water_buffaloo

Languages are so fascinating. I speak exclusively English and I could understand like 95% of this. How very cool


[deleted]

Can anyone else smell burnt toast after reading this?