TIL Jar Jar Binks wasn't some alien species. He was just Jamacian.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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In the words of Wayne Brady, "Meesa Jar Jar Binks! Meesa one big stereotype!"
A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean Black accent. He's a loser little titty baby.
Some sodomite sent me a bucket of poop
I renounce Jesus Christ
til Jamaican has a special dialect that is kind of english
Patois is a creole language whose vocabulary largely comes from English, and there's a gradient of dialects between Patois and Jamaican Standard English, but pure Patois is considered mutually unintelligible with Jamaican English and thus a separate language. Moreover:
A 2007 survey by the Jamaican Language Unit found that 17.1 percent of the population were monolingual in Jamaican Standard English (JSE), 36.5 percent were monolingual in Patois, and 46.4 percent were bilingual, although earlier surveys had pointed to a greater degree of bilingualism (up to 90 percent).
To clarify, patois is a generic term, as is creole, and can apply to any non-standardized language and is not specific to any particular location or group or language. That's why it's called "Jamaican patois" in the screenshot.
Don’t they spell the specific Jamaican language “Patwa”, to differentiate it from the idea of a patois in general?
Thanks. I know there are thousands of languages, but Jamaican is the only ‘patois’ I've encountered in wide discussion, so amn't used to differentiating. It seems also to be an umbrella term, whereas Jamaican Patois is actually a creole language.
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Somebody once tell mi seh di world a go roll mi
Mi nah di sharpest tool inna di shed
She did a look kinda dumb wid har finger an har thumb
Inna di shape a one "L" pon har forehead
Well, di years start come an dem nuh stop come
Fed to di rules an mi hit di ground runnin'
Nuh make sense fi live without fun
Yuh brain get smart, but yuh head get dumb
So much fi do, so much fi see
So, wah wrong wid takin' di backstreets?
Yuh wi never know if yuh nuh go (go)
Yuh wi never shine if yuh nuh glow
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin' stars break di mold
It a cool place, an dem seh it get colder
Yuh bundle up now, wait 'til yuh get older
But di meteor men beg fi differ
Judgin' by di hole in di satellite picture
Di ice we skate a gettin' pretty thin
Di water a get warm, so yuh might as well swim
Mi world a blaze, how 'bout yours?
Dat's di way mi like it, an mi wi never get bored
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(All dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin' stars break di mold
Go fi di moon
Go, go, go, go fi di moon
Go, go, go, go fi di moon
Go, go, go fi di moon
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin' stars
Somebody once ask, "Could mi spare some change fi gas?
Mi need fi get miself away from dis place"
Mi seh, "Yep, wah a concept, mi could use a likkle fuel miself
An we could all use a likkle change"
Well, di years start come an dem nuh stop come
Fed to di rules an mi hit di ground runnin'
Nuh make sense fi live without fun
Yuh brain get smart, but yuh head get dumb
So much fi do, so much fi see
So, wah wrong wid takin' di backstreets?
Yuh wi never know if yuh nuh go (go)
Yuh wi never shine if yuh nuh glow
Hey now, yuh a one all-star
Get yuh game on, go play
Hey now, yuh a one rock star
Get di show on, get paid
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin' stars break di mold
(An all dat glitters a gold)
Only shootin' stars break di mold
DK West is Malaysian, not Jamaican. The resemblance is still there though lol
Informer You no say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man he says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down
Police-a dem dey come and-a blow down me door One him come crawl through through my window So they put me in the back of the car at the station From that point on I reach my destination Where the destination reached was the East Detention Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom
di copypasta
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I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.
I'm not even a native speaker and it still works.
Try pidgin next
I've having a week and this is exactly what I needed. I'm now getting all my news from BBC Pidgin.
English headline: Trump wants to pause migration from 'third-world countries'
Pidgin headline: Who be di 'third world countries' Trump say im go permanently pause dia migration to US?
It is with great pleusre that I inform you this is real.
"Me wan da poonani"
- Steven Segal
Daaaaay-oh!
I do a Nigerian voice to help process my pain. But it doesn't work I keep doing it tho
Now read it back how in de voyce
Dey eet da poopoo
Hawaiian Pidgin is also pretty damn funny. Look up "Da Jesus Book".
Same.
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