St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay

[Tom]

Hi

Could you please tell me the meaning of the given dialect?It was uttered by a person who was amused by his friend's mysery/ suffering.

-St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay.

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

That's not English. :shock:

From the St. Lucia website:
Language
The main language in Saint Lucia is English although many St. Lucians also speak French and Spanish. Kw?y?l, St Lucia's second language, is widely spoken by the St. Lucian people including all walks of life such as doctors, bankers, government ministers and the man on the street! Kw?y?l is not just a patois or broken French, but a language in its own right, with its own rules of grammar and syntax. The language is being preserved by its everyday use in day-to-day affairs and by special radio programmes and news read entirely in Kw?y?l.

Amy
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[Tom]

So Amy

Can you tell me the meaning of the phrase? This was used, I think, as a 'mocking sentence'.

Tom

[Yankee]

"Hi Tom," Amy said with an exasperated sigh.... ;)

"Kw?y?l" is a French creole language! 8) I have learned French, but the only thing that looks like French to me is the first word "ou", which would mean "or" in English (assuming you haven't left out any accent marks...).

The meaning? I haven't got the foggiest. I am entirely clueless. I haven't got even the tiniest inkling.

The only thing I'd be able to do is guess --- just like you. In order to even attempt a guess, I'd have to have the entire context --- just like you. :lol:

Amy (the clueless)
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[Conchita]

[Msladyg32]

that means "you will burn" in Patwa....