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Originally Posted by TimT
Jamaicans speak Patios, which is sort of a creole mashup of a few languages and dialects..
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Patois and Creole are not the same but at the same time are. Both Patois and Creole are often used generically to refer to mash up dialects even while the roots of those dialects may be different.
Creole has a French lexifier, the base vocabulary of the language / dialect. Patois' lexifier is English.
Linguists refer to it as Jamaican Creole but that's not really accurate but can be if you define Creole as a mashup and not a unique language. It's more accurately Jamaican Patois.
Fooking confusing as hell.
One of my stepmoms was Haitian and they speak Haitian Creole.
It was always interesting when she met a Jamaican and they'd use Patois with her.
Her general response when hearing it was something along the lines of "i'm not your sistah you dirty Jamaican......insert words the forum filter will reject."
Apparently Haitians and Jamaicans don't get along? Or it could have just been her, I was always afraid to ask.