Jamaican Patois Quotes

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Crystal Evans
“So I see people mocking my usage of patois… or Jamaican creole which is a form of pidgin created from Afrikaan, Spanish and English languages. This is a Jamaican page by a Jamaican author. The person in the video is Jamaican. It’s common for people to think English is an indication of intelligence albeit only 20% of the world’s population speaks English and only 5% are native English speakers. I mean English itself is a creole of sorts with words from Celtic, Slavic and Latin languages..

Smartest people in the world are Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Indians) their native languages are Hindi, Mandarin and Creole Cantonese. Swahili and Igbo are big creole languages in Africa.

Linguistic discrimination is not even warranted based on how languages are developed.

Glottophobics are as bad as racist with their linguicism.
English is just a superstrate language due to Anglo- Saxon colonization and the British empire…

English is still a superstrate because of large English speaking populations such as America, England, South Africa, Nigeria and Canada.”
Crystal Evans, Jamaican Patois Guide