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Did you find the skit funny?

Yes 3 12.50%
 
I understood it but I didn't find it funny 6 25.00%
 
I did not understand it much 15 62.50%
 
Total:24

1 Did you comprehend it? - Not what the DJ said.
2 Did you find it funny? No.
3 Why or why not? - Mainly because the jamaican accent was too heavy, I could not understand it.

4. I am a brazilian living in Brazil my whole life, 31 years old, college education. I understand every word in english, but I do not write it or speak it well.



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

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Zizzla_Rachet said:
I was rasied in New york City so I met alot o jamaicans in school and at retail jobs...I thought it was pretty funny...it was qued right since that's not what the original voice over for that crank yankers epsode was..


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1) hard to understand strong Jamaican accent, woman I could understand but "radio" guy I had trouble with, was like trying to listen to someone from northern England speak "English"

2) Was semi funny cause apparently they were talking about Jesus having sex (hell I would have went the whole Jesus hanged out with hookers part myself/ was fuckin Mary Magdalene)

3) I'm from USA, born in Ohio, white as hell



1 Did you comprehend it?

The beginning, but not the rest
2 Did you find it funny?

No

3 Why or why not?

I couldn't understand most of it.

4 What cultural background do you come from? (you can also elaborate on your exposure ... for instance you may be Chinese but made Jamaican friends in college so you understand their parlance).

I'm an American born Canadian, with background from France, U.K., Germany, Belgium, Hungary, and Romania. I know a lot of Chinese and Koreans, but only a few Jamaicans, and they don't talk like that.



I didn't understand a thing. So obviously it wasn't funny. I am a foreigner.



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VGPolyglot said:
1 Did you comprehend it?

The beginning, but not the rest
2 Did you find it funny?

No

3 Why or why not?

I couldn't understand most of it.

4 What cultural background do you come from? (you can also elaborate on your exposure ... for instance you may be Chinese but made Jamaican friends in college so you understand their parlance).

I'm an American born Canadian, with background from France, U.K., Germany, Belgium, Hungary, and Romania. I know a lot of Chinese and Koreans, but only a few Jamaicans, and they don't talk like that.

You ever been to the island of Jamaica?  I have twice (possibly 3 times can't remember exactly).  While most of them aren't that hard to understand there are some that talk exactly how the radio guy talk.  Hell, I have a hard time understanding some normal black people here in USA.  I have to say what?, agree even though I don't know what I'm agreeing to, or just laugh to act like I understand them.  They don't all talk like that but there are some that do.



sethnintendo said:
VGPolyglot said:
1 Did you comprehend it?

The beginning, but not the rest
2 Did you find it funny?

No

3 Why or why not?

I couldn't understand most of it.

4 What cultural background do you come from? (you can also elaborate on your exposure ... for instance you may be Chinese but made Jamaican friends in college so you understand their parlance).

I'm an American born Canadian, with background from France, U.K., Germany, Belgium, Hungary, and Romania. I know a lot of Chinese and Koreans, but only a few Jamaicans, and they don't talk like that.

You ever been to the island of Jamaica?  I have twice.  While most of them aren't that hard to understand there are some that talk exactly how the radio guy talk.  Hell, I have a hard time understanding some normal black people here in USA.  I have to say what?, agree even though I don't know what I'm agreeing to, or just laugh to act like I understand them.  They don't all talk like that but there are some that do.


I have never, I have only met Jamaicans here in Canada, and they have adopted the Canadian dialect.



VGPolyglot said:
sethnintendo said:
VGPolyglot said:
1 Did you comprehend it?

The beginning, but not the rest
2 Did you find it funny?

No

3 Why or why not?

I couldn't understand most of it.

4 What cultural background do you come from? (you can also elaborate on your exposure ... for instance you may be Chinese but made Jamaican friends in college so you understand their parlance).

I'm an American born Canadian, with background from France, U.K., Germany, Belgium, Hungary, and Romania. I know a lot of Chinese and Koreans, but only a few Jamaicans, and they don't talk like that.

You ever been to the island of Jamaica?  I have twice.  While most of them aren't that hard to understand there are some that talk exactly how the radio guy talk.  Hell, I have a hard time understanding some normal black people here in USA.  I have to say what?, agree even though I don't know what I'm agreeing to, or just laugh to act like I understand them.  They don't all talk like that but there are some that do.


I have never, I have only met Jamaicans here in Canada, and they have adopted the Canadian dialect.

Yea, even on island you can understand almost all of them.  I'm just trying to say that there are some Rastas that talk in a heavy Jamaican accent that is hard for a normal English speaker to understand. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTmSAjpHobE&feature=player_embedded

 



sethnintendo said:
VGPolyglot said:


I have never, I have only met Jamaicans here in Canada, and they have adopted the Canadian dialect.

Yea, even on island you can understand almost all of them.  I'm just trying to say that there are some Rastas that talk in a heavy Jamaican accent that is hard for a normal English speaker to understand. 

 


That's true in some sense. Rastas tend to use heavy slang. "Bumbo clatt, rass clatt, deaders, batty, ital, irie, etc" and then tend to contract a lot of the words in English language. "Me ah dweet" I will do it. "Pon de river" = On the river. It took me a LONG time to understand only some of it. Double negatives are used a lot too and that may confuse some people.

 

You just gave me a thought ... Trinidadians are supposodely easier on the ears ... let me know what you think of this one.

 

 

 



 

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I didn't understand much of what they were saying but what i understood was pretty funny. I guess i found there accents funny more than anything but also how exaggerated the movements of the characters were too. I'm British and i grew up in an area of much cultural diversity, so i sort of knew what was going on. I also like Reggae music alot too.



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