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Knowing your audience?

I was in outer Brooklyn yesterday and saw this sign in the window of a restuarant.

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Of course, I went inside.

And this is how their meals were advertised:
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Now, first off, I’m fairly sure rhatid is a pretty nasty curse in Patois…kinda like sasat in Russian. But second, wow…does anyone who hasn’t had significant exposure to Island folk even understand this sentence?

This entry was posted by Dawn Summers on Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pm and is filed under Pictures. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Knowing your audience?”

  1. wza Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    so what does it mean? i work with a cruzan, but he went home for the night. i want me some jerk chicken mon!

  2. Dawn Summers Says:
    March 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Irie, mon

  3. wza Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    i checked with him and he has no idea what it means. what island is “de island” referring to?

  4. Dawn Summers Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    Hahah…I bet you pronounced it wrong.

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