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Thread #64450 Message #1053838
Posted By: GUEST
14-Nov-03 - 07:10 PM
Thread Name: Who were the 'Lin-Rum so-jers'?
Subject: RE: Who were the 'Lin-Rum so-jers'?
As a bit of a newspaper columnist, I used to be torn between our Bajan dialect (which sounds quite a lot like the Kingdom Coming language) and standard English. Sometimes I would do one, sometimes the other. Nowadays I stick mostly to English spelling but use our idiom quite a bit. One of our writers uses dialect spelling all the time but it can be tedious to read.
Some of our expressions and pronunciations are African but a lot are old English like "ax" for "ask". There is a Barbadian who reads the Caribbean news on BBC and it's kinda embarrassing to hear that "ax".