Originally Posted by Fish:
I watched Bob Marley: One Love the other night. I thought it was well done. But admittedly, it was a real struggle to figure out WTF they were saying most of the time. I turned on subtitles, but that didn't really help much either. The subtitles were the same Jamaican slang they were speaking, so you'd end up with subtitles like "Ja Mon, I and I fi gon down ta store." :-) But the story was cool, and it was well done other than the difficulty understanding the dialect.
Meh a tell yah seh yah haffi listen close, but yuh cyaan mek it out.
It’s basically just broken English in the movie. Real Jamaican patwah is a bit harder, but I think they made it more understandable for the audience. I’ve been hearing it almost my whole life, and I can understand it and speak it fairly well.
If you listen to a lot of dancehall music (which I doubt you do) you’ll get a better feel for it. To me it’s super hot.
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