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Talk Jamaican |
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With
Cecelia Campbell-Livingston
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Welcome back to the classroom! Let's dig right in. "Yuh free paper bun"--you will hear this expression at the ending of any holiday. It means, "your time is up!" Whenever it’s time to return to school or get back on the job, we signify this by saying ‘yuh free paper bun’. 'Bun’ in this case means ‘burn’. "Chi Chi Man"--for lovers of dancehall, you must be familiar with this expression. But if you are a newcomer to the movement then this expression refers to homosexual men. "Yuh a dis di programme"--Literally translated as 'You are disrespecting the program." You will hear this when someone is disappointed by someone he had in high regard. If that person disrespects him in some way or the other this will be flung at them. In Jamaica, we have so many words for female genetalia, your head will swim. When a man is looking at a woman in a coarse way, he will use one of these words to say, "What happen? You nah let off di ‘tomato’, cho cho’, 'punany’, ‘pum pum’, ‘tun tun,’ ‘punash’, 'renking meat’, ‘vagi’, ‘cherry’, ‘ackee’, ‘fishy’, ‘porkey’, saltfish’? It would be remiss of me if I didn’t didn’t tell you the Jamaican expressions for male counterpart. Most women decently refer to it as ‘joystick’, ‘buddy’, ‘john’, willie’, ‘anaconda’ (if it’s long!), ‘teelie’ (if it’s small), and ‘sausage’. Well that’s all for this week. Next week I will explain some Jamaican proverbs for you. Cecilia Campbell-Livingston has been in journalism for the past thirteen years. She's currently assistant editor at Jamaica's leading weekly tabloid, XNews. She also writes for other publications. |
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