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St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay



 
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St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay #1 (permalink) Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:29 am   St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay
 

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.

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St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay #2 (permalink) Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:09 am   St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay
 

Hi Tom

That's not English. Shocked

From the St. Lucia website:
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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.


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St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay #3 (permalink) Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:39 am   St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay
 

So Amy

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

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St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay #4 (permalink) Thu Jun 29, 2006 13:38 pm   St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay
 

"Hi Tom," Amy said with an exasperated sigh.... Wink

"Kw?y?l" is a French creole language! Cool 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. Laughing

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St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay #5 (permalink) Fri Jun 30, 2006 16:59 pm   St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay
 

Yankee wrote:
"Hi Tom," Amy said with an exasperated sigh.... Wink

"Kw?y?l" is a French creole language! Cool 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. Laughing

Amy (the clueless)

That's what I call a personalised or humanised answer. Well done, Amy Smile !
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St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay #6 (permalink) Fri Apr 25, 2008 14:56 pm   St Lucian dialect: Ou Kai bwelay
 

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