Jamaica 2

Listen to Jamaica 2, a 45-year-old man from Mandeville, Jamaica. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 45

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/05/1965

PLACE OF BIRTH: Mandeville, Jamaica

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Jamaican (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: florist

EDUCATION: high school

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born, raised and currently resides in Mandeville, Jamaica.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Subject grew up in a city.

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RECORDED BY: Tanera Marshall

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/02/2011

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Describe! I don’t know, um, obviously … you’re with friends … you probably … a bit more patois would come into it just naturally, I mean I, I’m talking so we can understand each other. You could say, I could say, “You wouldn’t believe what gwan today. You know, you know what happened today? I, I had a fender bender.” You know, “I got in an accident down the road.” But, like what you’ll see with, uh,  people like you probably … like, like in St. Elizabeth, um, there are people in the country areas that we have a problem understanding, even we will have, uh, trouble … because the patois is so so so strong and they’ll draw out some of the words so much. Unlike what, I don’t know, maybe people who have more of a formal education or … I don’t know the reason. But, uh, you can almost tell somebody talking patois who maybe had a, a high school or college education to somebody who is in the country, country area and real…I can’t even do it. I, you know, I can’t even do it, you know. They’ll, they’ll just draw out some of the words a little, you know, something like they’re from some place in St. Elizabeth or so forth. ..

TRANSCRIBED BY: Tanera Marshall

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/02/2011

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