I Am Learning How To Talk Like A Bajan

This is probably a catastrophe; I have no idea what I was doing. I tried with the language and hoped for the best. I really hope I haven’t mutilated any Bajan because I never intended to change any of this already established dialect

 

I Am Learning How to Talk Like A Bajan

 

I have been reading some Blog entries

And noticing that Bajan dialect is full of anomalies

Many English words carry new meanings

Like Hell a good thing and a weapon called Collins

Every word they emit with nasal sound

And remove harsh letters, that’s what I found

Repeats are done for emphasis

None of the Bajans will explain this

I in a word, when should it change to E?

Never knowing which, ah or uh confuses me

Got a clue from Cheese-on-bread today

Her Blog tries to explain what Bajans say

On Friday she published some of the idiom

Extracts she borrowed from another dot com

This here is my challenge, to use the slang

Objective criticism is welcomed from any of the gang

Tek away mah bread and two then yuh cyaah me on scruffy

And yuh doan mind yuh own business, yuh always too gypsie

Leff me loan and doan off-set me like yuh did before

Keep yah distance coz I aint gun be yuh poppit nah more

Licrish fuh chu you gone and eat all the Jug

I cyant believe you cud come saying “gimme a hug”

Kissing me then yuh skin yuh teeth, but never again

Every time it ends up, you just complain

And now I gun go, if yuh miss me I aint dey

But me bozie, I aint gun scotch again, nuh way

Aint getting horn nuh more, nor getting lick up

Juk in the eye, catspraddle and chopped wid nuh teacup

A life at the horsepital even pon a bank holiduh

Now gun stop coz I dunnin wid yuh

 

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