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You want to ‘even up yuhself’ and pretend to be Jamaican. Here’s the test. 15 is a passing score! You know you're Jamaican when ...
- You use ‘couple’ to mean anything from one to one hundred.
- You go to another Caribbean Island for two weeks and come back with a North American accent.
- Farrin is different from abroad.
- You have body parts such as backfoot, frontfoot, backside, neck back and two nose holes.You have nicknames like blacka, jubba, skata shot, Puncie, Tun Tun, Titiman & Twinnie.
- Your nickname is based on how you look, or what you do or did.
- Every hot beverage is called tea.
- Your Number 1 reality show? Digicel Rising Stars.
- You know what it is to ride on a road filled with so many potholes, you felt more like you were in a simulator than a vehicle.
- Standard English means talking with a North American accent.
- You call a certificate a cerfitikit.
- Every vowel is a word of its own.
- You have a cell phone from every company.
- You eat the gut from the orange.
- Only when your hairdresser dies you know that ‘Winjy’ was not her real name.
- You can calculate money in multiples of ten up to a thousand with ease.
- You leave off a ‘H’ where one should be e.g. Hat- at, Him- im.
- You put a ‘H’ in front of words that begin with a vowel e.g. Hafter and Harinj (orange).
- You've had a 'wash-out' at least once in your lifetime.
- You call all your male teachers 'Sir' and all your female teachers 'Miss'.
- You go to a funeral for food.
- Your mother’s nine night ( dead yard) costs more than the funeral
- The soft shoulder is the express lane.
- You never pay for anything that you can get free.
- You beat the gate to get into a free event
- 'Juice' and 'drinks' mean the same thing to you.
- You use the star apple skin to wipe the stain from your mouth.
- Sunday dinner to you is synonymous with a big pot of rice and peas and some form of meat, vegetable or potato salad with drinks.
- You must have soup on Saturday
- You use the cocnut trash, after you have removed the milk, to make grater cake
- While you may have no idea what a 'vulture' is, you do know what a 'John Crow' looks like.
- English is your second language. Your first? Jamaican .
- You know why 'cloth' is NOT an innocent word
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