"We be jammin(g)" evoke for people?
Will I be in trouble if I say Jamaican?
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 15, 2005 12:29:18 pm PST #7683 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
P.M. Marc - Mar 15, 2005 12:30:03 pm PST #7684 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm with David. Please don't kill me.
Although if you could gently extract the earworm, I'd be happy.
Jesse - Mar 15, 2005 12:31:07 pm PST #7685 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not to get all pedantic (ha ha), but to me the "jammin" says Jamaican, the "be" says African American.
msbelle - Mar 15, 2005 12:31:35 pm PST #7686 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I'm with brenda, but my second choice is cheesy early 90'sian.
Aims - Mar 15, 2005 12:32:47 pm PST #7687 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
What nationality (if any) does the phrase "We be jammin(g)" evoke for people?
Jamaican because I always thought the song was considered reggae.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 12:37:39 pm PST #7688 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not to get all pedantic (ha ha), but to me the "jammin" says Jamaican, the "be" says African American.
But you're ignoring the common linguistic roots. Patois, especially when spoken by Rastas does use that same construction of the verb to be.
To me it's a Jamaican thing, driven in no small part by the repetition of "Jammin" by Bob Marley. It's even more Jamaican when it's on a mug beneath a picture of dancing dreadlocked men wearing red green and gold, and I wonder why the US Virgin Islands can't get their own freaking identity.
Kat - Mar 15, 2005 12:38:31 pm PST #7689 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm with Brenda and msbelle.
Sumi, AH! That makes more sense about the Sloane/Jack thing. Well not the slash thing per se, but the two of them fighting crime again. Or something like that. I think I was spoiled on who will play Elena, but now I can't remember any more.
JohnSweden - Mar 15, 2005 12:38:39 pm PST #7690 of 10002
I can't even.
Dude, I'm calming myself down by basically imagining the death of every single person now extant in this world, and you're trying to harsh that mellow? I really don't think that's the road you want to go down just now.
brenda, I have to say, I'd had the thought too. Them later folks will suck too, worse, they won't know the books or movies I know, so they'll be culturally-illiterate. It's a shame, really.
What nationality (if any) does the phrase "We be jammin(g)" evoke for people?
Victorian. Isn't that nice Marley chap written up in Dickens?
Kat - Mar 15, 2005 12:39:39 pm PST #7691 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
US Virgin Islands can't get their own freaking identity
Do they have the same shared heritage of patois? Also, they can't get their own identity cause someone already has Virginians covered.
Jesse - Mar 15, 2005 12:40:55 pm PST #7692 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But you're ignoring the common linguistic roots. Patois, especially when spoken by Rastas does use that same construction of the verb to be.
Not ignoring, just ignorant. (Speaking of common roots, huh.)
Poor Virgin Islanders, they've got nothing.