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How do you "everything", in Jamaican English?

19 minutes? Nope

I could do some serious laughing about you trying English

Ma’am, you do know Brad Pitt not from Jamaica.. I’m sure he’s trying very hard. No need with laughing.

I really liked these scenes, they were the best scenes in the movie. Since I'm no Jamaican accent expert, the only thing I can draw upon is when British actors do an American accent. I feel if they stay in character and try their best, I usually give it a pass so it doesn't take me out of the film. I'm glad you maintained a professional distance, it would've been easy to make jokes, and like I said, I really like these scenes. Thank you.

Why have I never heard any of the Jamaicans that I have known, speak and pronounce words the way that you say is the correct way? Maybe Jamaicans on the island do pronounce words like that but the ones in America seem to pronounce words like Brad Pitt did. Maybe they are Americanized Jamaicans. I don’t know.

This reminds me when Al Pacino played the devil and tried to speak Spanish 😂 it was understandable but he spoke slang with a very weird accent.

I may be a white girl, but after 30 years living in a Creole village , his accent was really bad and did throw the seriousness of the scene.

Sorry but this was offensive to me. I'll let you decide who and what I am that was just offended. Oh, its quite common now y'know. We'll do it like this... Lets just imagine picking apart the way some minorities speak in The US. They might say, "Those Idiots who gave us antibiotics, space exploration, refrigeration, and Sesame Street, don't respect us because they cant say, 'Alright' in the minority language of patois. They have no respect for us! Where as we have no problems with English do we? Thats because we know how to respect others. Right?" Is deciding whether a person respects another nationality or race by how well they can speak their language a good respect test? Hmmm?, Boy, I must really hate French people judging by my high school French language test scores. I don't think this young Lady realizes that she just smashed whatever race Brad Pitt is. People who notice things like skin color told me all about what just happened to him. Tang Q.

I thought it was interesting that the “daughter” had ZERO accent??

I know this is an old video, but Jamaicans only have ones accent? Cause here in the States there's many different accents and dialects of the same language

Thank you so much for this insight into your language and culture. I read a lot of books, and the first contact I had with with your beliefs was a very strange one. William Gibsons Cyberspace. Strange source, no doubt about that, but it was the first time I heard about Baron Samedi, lord of the graveyards and crossroads and the others. And I watched Angel Heart and I found it quite disturbing. I must admit that I'm not a big fan of some of the aspects of your ways, but later I read other books with different ways to practice those beliefs and I learned to respect it. A lot. If you want to get things done ... ask nicely. And be sure to use the name of the person you want to adress correctly. Just like in real life. I like that. Nobody wants to hear their name butchered. I understand that, I too have a name americans can't pronounce. Not even my former lover, who had roots on the islands. I looked up two words after I watched the movie and I thought ... wtf. And I thought about the second a lot. I remember a time where I read another book. Native americans. It reminded me of something else. That's how my mind works ... Sorry for this long winding text. And then YT recommended your video and I started to watch it right before my weekly DnD-Session. 🤣 I forgot how to add numbers. I was really bad. Embarassing, actually I'm quite good at numbers. No idea how that happened. I hope that your university and this book you mentioned is getting the attention it deserves. I'm pretty sure this incarnation of death would have no problem to lend his face to a cause like that. I think he's a nice guy. We all know what else he is, but ... Who cares for beauty? If the soul is black, nobody cares for the facade. Thank you for this analysis, I would have missed so much. I know I'm years too late, but maybe you read this. Greetings from the other side of the world.

I suspect that his pronunciation was designed to be understandable to the main audience, from the US.

Please, increase sound volume. Joe Black Volume was good.

I think its the same as when he speaks in English, its very stilted and alot of it is quite literal, i wonder if it was intentional? Like, he's from another plane of existence but cant quite speak then all correctly? Fantastic video

who cares how he sounded! most can't talk correct English either but I don't see people complaining about that! so if you come to the UNITED STATES of AMERICA LEARN TO SPEAK English too no one is going to listen to your GARBAGE language if no one can understand it!! I'm not woke and I am not POLITICALLY CORRECT!! SO GET OVER IT!! BECAUSE I DON'T CARE!!!

I think you are taking the accent in this movie too personal. I speak Spanish; and let me tell you, most Spanish pronunciations in movies are wrong. They put someone in front of the camera who usually does not speak Spanish, or does not speak a good Spanish. And, I am sure, it happens with other languages all the time. I think, as an actor, he did okay. If he didn't pronounce correctly, is that important? Thank you for the info.

Amazing, actually loved this video, totally informative ❤

I hope you dont let these ridiculous comments get to you. Its like people have no idea what theyre watching. Great video.

Some jamaican s speak like him

I love the breakdown. I just rewatched this movie recently, and I love Brad Pitt in this movie. I definitely think that they purposely changed some of the sentence structure and words so that it would be easier for audiences to understand what is being said. There have been quite a few times when I've heard someone speaking Jamaican English/with a Jamaican accent and I have trouble understanding half of what they're saying. Especially if they speak quickly.

He's good enough to sound Jamaican to my ears. He's bad enough to sound terrible to someone who has grown up with the language. You mean like an actor? Like... You're ragging on him for doing his job exceptionally well....

It's broken English, seriously.. doesn't the world need a stupid amount of different languages?

You could definitely hear his blond whiteness in the accent but not like I could have even come close to

Fascinating video, thanks. But as an English speaking Englishman I have to say, that there is also an excruciating trail of debris along the road between Hollywood and the convincing English accent. Going back the other way is as bad. I have family and friends across the globe (including Japan). We all tend to crash land some words and phrases from each other’s dialects. To me that is a natural and inevitable part of a relaxed conversation. I could tell a bunch of stories that I’m sure you would identify with about speaking French or English or American or Indian English. The question I want to ask is ‘What is the character trying to do?’ He recognises the very wonderful Lois Kelly-Miller as Jamaican and tries to make her feel at ease. I don’t think he’s trying to be Jamaican. The clangers are a natural part of that. I don’t know if thay changed the character arc for Scott Baluka in NCIS New Orleans, but his accent initially made ME wince. When it was clarified that he was from out of state but loved being in the city, his mash-up made sense. For 35 years I have lived with an American in the UK. She still sounds American to me, but she sounds English to the friends she was at school with. It’s a mix. Thank you for sharing how good Brad Pitt was. But it’s a rare actor that can nail an accent that different to their own. Don’t sweat it, there will always be Dick Van Dyke in Marry Poppins.

Maybe Jamaican is not Death's first language. LOL

You never told us anything about what he said. You just analyzed his pronunciation.

She is just showing off. Who cares?

Dumbest video you could make over a damn language

I thought he was brilliant and like the majority of people who watched this I’m not Jamaican so who cares.

That's the point that's like someone from America speaking French or German or any other foreign language it's going to have an American accent

I came across this video looking for something else. Honestly who give a fuk about his accent or what you think about it. You know that's a movie right

Since we talking about pronunciation…caricature is NOT pronounced “crik’ uh chur” it’s “care’ uh cah chur”

Wasn’t he speaking patois from Louisiana in this film? 🤔

Perhaps he is not being exact so that the majority of us who do not understand Jamaican language can understand what he is saying. If he spoke it correctly, we would not know what he is saying.

I liked the explanation. But I wonder, since he had a lot of help from Lois (RIP), if maybe some of the pronunciations were deliberate because of the character. An English linguist would probably have picked apart his English, too. That was the point of Joe Black - he’s the Angel of Death, and death is a part of no world and every world. If that makes any sense.

I was raised in the rural northern part of the United States and at 26 I took a job in a deep southern city where I worked closely with African Americans for over 20 years. Eventually I realized that I had become fluent in Ebonics that I spoke at work, even with other Whites. After retirement I moved back up north and to this day, I find myself still using some Ebonics words.

thank god this scene came before the "culture appropiation" bullshit, its a really nice scene

He’s Death not Jamaican …. Not supposed to be accurate , check box marked OTHER

I Was raised around Jamaicans and West Indies / Caribbean culture is a major part of my early childhood, I could never put a finger on exactly why Pitt's performance sounded weird to me, just that it was off. Thank you for breaking it down.

Mi love do video. Dis video yah beautifully explain why patios is a language. Great presentation!!

I worked with a Haitian years ago. Hated him. I thought you would go far out on this. But I like your review and your smile. And I know you're not Haitian, you are Jamaican ok

I think you are being too nit picky, because he spoke better than some native self, I was in jamaica about 25 years ago and this was a converstation and the locals said this.

Im on an adventure to discover why the grim reaper is always portrayed as Jamaican.. Lets talk about it.

What are tiu of a critic if their is no jamacaican launquage .is s patua .

Hey really put his 'eyes' into irie 😂😂

Why analyse? Appreciate the effort for goodness sake.

She may be a linguist, shitting on Brad’s sentence structure, but is overlooking the most obvious thing. He’s reading from a script. Why point out what sounds more natural to her native ear? Does she know how movie scripts work?

So what exactly does Raatid mean?

He doing a Boring Bob Marley he spoke like him he was half white after all. I saw Bob once when he lived in Brixton. London