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Can you people using Jamaican slang make some efforts and write in classic English plz?
I dont want to hurt the people who love it but well, sometimes its hard to translate and understand... :/

satta down mon it will be with you soon come.

What? (...)
Quoi l'a fait si mi cause dans un Francais ou gagne pas comprendre non plus? (now translate in French and have fun with my native creole language lol)

ites deh Fab
of course we can all understand each other brothers no need that.
i just use jamaican slang to practise if you don´t understand someting just ask.
respect everytime
Carlos

Well, your one is "light" Carlos, easy to understand, but someone like abuse of it and the result is that only a very little lot as them can understand... What the point of it?
(more differences, more wars...)

ites Fab
yes i tink wee don't need wars...dem a lot over the world let's unite for the good cause ,roots music
have yu got the mail i sen about the compilation and my new blog wa do yu tink about it,it's in portuguese cause is to teach someting for the massiv over here!!!
respect everytime
Carlos

Your blog looks nice, kool and clean skin, but Portuguese language is restricting of curse, i wish that you make a ENglish part a day
(I have look your message in Yahoo and add the msn of your friend, but the prob is the same, he need to be online for that i send him the stuff! Its here the great point of msn, when the people are online we can chat and send files immediatly and easily, not just send a long transfert in a box... I have give him a rendez-vous, i hope he understand English language lol, if not tell him that i have lot of time for be online when he wish exactly and send him the files...)

ite Fab
i will talk with him about the messenger we will contact yu
about the blog yu can write in in french or english i understand a bit of french and speak too yu can step in the forum and talk about you local reggae scene,most of the people in Portugal speak english i'm just starting dis there will be my colection and other stuff
respect everytime
Carlos

I personally feel if jamaican patois is your natural language...then by all means flow with it as it is a "legitimate" form of expression. However, for those whose roots are not from the Carribean...what is the purpose of co-opting another culture? It doesn't sound right.

True enough, there are specific words that equate w/ Rasta wordsound power, but to infuse a reasoning with a particular dialect can be annoying if NOT being used authentically. Be yourself.

bless

Roger Carlos, im aware with it.
Exactly Tja, and im more restrictive again that you:
Why use a "unpopular" language when you know use one that everyone understand? Carraibean or not?
Look, im a French creole and i can use my creole language, but if i go to a forum of my natal music i still speak classic French, why make more difficultys again?
If a Jamaican who know use the classic English and his slang use everytimes his slang where some people can only understand the classic English it look a bit snobish, and at end what the point if he speak to some people who looks understanding only the classic one?? Just a little ok, but now go at the Buju Banton thread and look at end, i really cant understand what the guy say about French people and im concerned, i need to go at Jamaica for learn first? Totaly non-sens, have fun why not? But sometimes it look just a style point who make confusion for nothing really important...