Bad English is just something that cannot go on on the world stage
when them fellas open they mouth I does cringe at what might come out
I remember some months ago I see Junir Gong on 106 and park and I tell meh self boy, yuh know how them Jamaican does talk like they never went to school
and to my surprise the man is very well spoken
eloquent and answer everything to the point in he Jamaican accent
so if he could do it who is we
Allyuh men getting tie up like market crab oui. Â
First things first, yuh hear who yuh say there? Â Junior Gong. Â Not Jah Cure or Sizzla, but Jr. Gong. Â The man's father just happens to be a multi-millionaire whose estate even years after his death still makes millions in royalties and other payments on an anual basis.
You think Jr. Gong went any and every normal school? Â Steups. Â Is pure Private school them went. Â All ah dem Marley kids. Â My cousin from Ja. actually went to one of the most exclusive prive schools in Jamaica and was in class with one of the daughters of the one and only Mutabaruka. Â Imagine that. Â It eh have no more Earthsman than Muta, and his youths and them went big, exclusive private school. Â So the way they speak obviously shows their upbringing.
Secondly I have absolutely NO problem with our dialect. Â NONE WHATSOEVER.
These are the very arguments that there were in Jamaica when Louise Bennett started her stories and poetry in Jamaican patois. Â Fight down in the earlies until they learn to love and respect their own way of talking/expressing themselves.
By the way, who really speaks the Queen's English? Â Not the English. Â Not the vast majority of them anyway. Â I can assure you of that. Â Neither do the Scottish, or worse yet, the Irish. Â Do the Americans? Â Nope. Â What about the Austrailians? Â Not them either. Â So why the need for our players to speak standard English on camera? Â Are you ashamed of how we speak?
The basic idea of speech is comunication. Â To ensure that person A and person B can each understand the message that is being shared. Â To the extent that this happens, regardless of "green verbs" or what have you, you have successful communication.
So if is so we is talk, let them fellas talk just so when they getting interview. Â It eh have no shame in that atall. Â