Talk Like Ah Bajan Part 3: Can Bajans translate their own vernacular?

Following on from our Talk Like Ah Bajan Series, we asked some of your “average” Bajans to translate some of the sayings we presented here. See how they did below… Bajan Saying: If you didn’t at de christening, yuh shouldn’t be at de wedding. The Average Bajan Says: If you weren’t there from the start
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Talk Like ah Bajan Part 2

This article follows on from yesterday’s article that presented some of the more commonly used Bajan sayings and proverbs. In this article, we will take a more in-depth look at the Bajan vernacular, by presenting a glossary of regularly used words and their meanings. Please note that these are not all the words/terms that form the
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Talk Like ah Bajan Part 1

            If you are a tourist, have you ever passed a group of Bajans speaking and thought to yourself, “what on earth are those people saying?” Have any of you younger Barbadians been at a family gathering when all of a sudden great-grandma exclaims “one smart get catch at two smart door”, everyone starts laughing
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