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Boom! Piers Morgan Impresses With The 'Power Of Patois'
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Boom! Piers Morgan Impresses With The 'Power Of Patois'
Social media demands journalist be made an honorary citizen after his old Jamaican proverb goes viral
Written by Elizabeth Pears
04/08/2014 05:00 PM
APT PUPIL: Piers Morgan with his 'patois teacher' West Indies batsman, Chris Gayle (pic: Piers Morgan/Twitter)
THE POWER of sport in bringing the unlikeliest of people together is well-documented and now a Twitter exchange during the Commonwealth Games has endeared Piers Morgan to the Jamaican community.
Morgan, an avid sports fan, tweeted the word ‘Boom!’ after the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, powered the Jamaican 4x100m relay team to victory at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Saturday night.
But the exclamation irritated one social media user who asked him: “Why ‘boom’? You’re not Jamaican.”
The celebrity journalist then replied – in patois – referencing an old Jamacian proverb: “Mi cum ya fi drink milk, mi no cum yah fi count cow” which means 'mind your business'.
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/articl...s-power-patois
Historian, call mi if yuh need a translator!
Boom! Piers Morgan Impresses With The 'Power Of Patois'
Social media demands journalist be made an honorary citizen after his old Jamaican proverb goes viral
Written by Elizabeth Pears
04/08/2014 05:00 PM
APT PUPIL: Piers Morgan with his 'patois teacher' West Indies batsman, Chris Gayle (pic: Piers Morgan/Twitter)
THE POWER of sport in bringing the unlikeliest of people together is well-documented and now a Twitter exchange during the Commonwealth Games has endeared Piers Morgan to the Jamaican community.
Morgan, an avid sports fan, tweeted the word ‘Boom!’ after the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, powered the Jamaican 4x100m relay team to victory at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Saturday night.
But the exclamation irritated one social media user who asked him: “Why ‘boom’? You’re not Jamaican.”
The celebrity journalist then replied – in patois – referencing an old Jamacian proverb: “Mi cum ya fi drink milk, mi no cum yah fi count cow” which means 'mind your business'.
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/articl...s-power-patois
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