Tuesday, August 9, 2011

English to Patois Translation?

Which patois? This is just the French for "sub-standard dialect." In the tropics it is widely used as a synonym of Creole, the result of the adaptation by African slaves of their masters' French, English, Dutch, Spanish or Portuguese. If, as I rather suspect, you mean Jamaican Creole, say so.

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