My Uncle Al sent this to me... Damn.. I thought I invented DWL years ago. I prefer that to LOL. Jamaicans dont LOL. We simply Dead Wid Laugh.
1. ANFMB = A no fi mi business
2. AWDY = A wah do yuh?
3. AO = Alms Ouse
4. BKYT = But kuh yuh to
5. BPT = Back Pon Top
6. BLBD = Bruck Like Bredda Dawg
7. BOAL = Buss Out A Laff
8. BOABDL = Buss Out A Big Dutty Laff
9. BWAP = But what a preckeh
10. CAS = Crack A Smile
11. CYAWO = Cut Yeye And Wheel Out
12. CECEKCMIT = Cut eye cut eye kyaan cut mi in
two
13. DMDPM = Duppy mussi deh pon mi
14. DWL = Dead Wid Laff
15. DWLAWUMS = Dead Wid Laff And Wet Up Mi
Self
16. ECAC = Everyting cook an curry
17. FR = Fi Real
18. FHPN = Favya heng pon nail
19.. FLCP = fat like cut puss
20. GAL = Gimmie a link
21. HDF = How di family?
22. HHFD = Her husband fayva duppy
23. KMN = Kiss Mi Neckback
24. LIH = Lick Innu Head
25. LM = Likkle More
26.MHDU = Mi have di ukubit
27. MJM = Macca juck mi
28. MWDWY = Mi woulda deh wid yuh
29. MPD = Mad People Dem
30. MYOB = Mine Yuh Own Bizniz
31. NDMT = No draw mi tongue
32. NMMAYHN = Noh meck mi an yuh have nutten
33. NR = Nuff Respect
34. DPDGS = Deh pon di gully side
35.. SF = Say Feh
36. TWY = Tek Weh Yuself
37. WPYD = Which part yuh deh?
38. YAM = Yuh ave money?
39. WYC = Wah yuh cook?
40. YDPYO = Yuh deh pon yuh own
41. YMM = Yuh mussi mad
42. WAMU = What a man ugly
43. WASU = What a sinting uley
44. WAOU = What a ooman ugly
45. WAG = Wah a gwaan?
46. WASPPMG = What a sinting pon poor mi gyal
47. WYADWPP = Wah yuh a do wid people people
48. YGE = Yuh good eeeh?
49. YGFWMAS = Yuh gwaan fass wid mi an see
50. YSKHWWGPB = Yuh soon know how water walk gaa punkin belly
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9 comments:
I love those - even (especially?) the ones I don't actually understand.
DWL!! Z...
If you want help in translating, I'd be happy to offer assistance.
WPYD?
[#37 Which part yuh deh- where are you?]
I feel so ignorant.
How about 50?
Aha!
Now you are on to big things.
#50 is from a Jamaican idiom " you will know how water walk do a pumpkin belly"
It means essentially that the great mysteries will soon be unveiled. Sometimes mother's and grandmothers use it as a cautionary tale to young uns.
But it really is about waiting and seeing because all these things somehow eventually get revealed.
There must be some very puzzled Jamaican infants around going "what?"
I hardly like to ask what 'duppy' is (22) Or in what circumstances one would say 24.
Duppy is ghost...
#24 Lick (hit) in your head- "You've hit your head!"
So if someone wanted to say borrow your brand new car that you didn't even go for a ride in yet... you could appropriately ask or exclaim "You lick yuh head?!"
...bwoy i tell yu.."knowledge is golden" but syill ah DWL !!
;-))
So, is 'Her husband fayva duppy' something like 'her husband hankers after an old girlfriend' ?
As for 'you lick yuh head', I'm certainly using that!
Z,, for sure!
As a child, I thought it was all weird... some I could understand but the proverbs and idioms took longer. But when you hear them, you know that the wisdom of the ancestors speaks through.
These SMS abbreviations are mostly for jokes regarding common expressions in the language.
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