by Diogenesister 31 Replies latest social humour
🤦♀️This 25 million different languages thing is getting ridiculous. This link is hilarious! They've only gone and translated into Jamaican Patois and boy this isn't just translation, they're literally using slang....what next? A Scouse version of Revelation? Paul's letter to the Ephesians in cockney rhyming slang?!!😂😂
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I'm thinking of that scene in the movie Airplane, where the white woman offers to help translate from English to Jive.
OH 😂😂 exactly! What's with the "Gods boy pikni come ina di worl fe mash up de devil wok."
That's Jesus!
Calling Jesus a "boy Piccaninny" is NOT going to go down well with Jamaican church ladies😱More L's for the Watchtower🤦♀️
Many years ago my relative sent for an Awake magazine in Pidgin English and showed it to me. It was hilarious!
I wish i could remember some of the phrases.
Diogenesister, I actually have a copy of the Bible in Cockney. 🙄 Approved by none other than the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Oh my goodness, here is the link:
But it's an excuse to have a lavish 'remote translation office', I bet.
I'm waiting for watchtower to release an Ebonics, oops AAVE, 'translation'.
A scene from a Jamaican Pioneer training film: two brothers in the ministry on brother talking to the other; " What's going down Cruz?" , The Second Brother responds, " I got fresh fish on the line, going down!"
I remember years ago at a Convention a missionary sister re-enacting an experience. I don't recall where she had been assigned, but the greeting used was "G'day! Yo belly go good, mon?"
Never thought I would see this on JW.org:
I think this is fantastic and inclusive and I don’t see a thing wrong with it. Do other religious groups produce literature in Jamaican patois, I wonder? If not, then even more kudos to Watchtower for doing this.
Seems a bit odd to include the flag, though. Do they do this for other countries?
I wish they’d produce British English spelling versions of literature and the NWT too, but maybe that’s not a priority.
