A Brief History of Seven Killings

[Keith Davis]

Thanks. I'm glad you had the same reaction. When I was spending time in Jamaica, I don't remember anyone sounding this clean and proper, but it was a long time ago, and it was a different part of the island. What a beautiful place it was then. I'm afraid to think what's happened to it now.

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> On Feb 3, 2016, at 2:30 AM, Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm also just at the beginning of this, just shy of your 50 and I agree. At least when my Jamaican friend speaks to other Jamaicans I don't understand anything (or very little) and I don't have trouble with this. A necessity I think. When my friend speaks to me she speaks entirely in English. Now I write this it all seems rather contrived modifying in novel form.
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>> On 3 Feb 2016 04:32, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Probably sounds stupid and arrogant. He's the Jamaican, not me, and it t does flow. Anybody else read it yet?
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>> > On Feb 2, 2016, at 11:19 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > With the gift card my son gave me for Christmas, I bought this book, and have delayed gratification as long as possible. I'm about 50 pages in, and I dig it, but I have one comment, which I reserve the right to back off of or see corrected. He's sometimes writing in patois, which is hip, and which those who speak it seem to be able to adjust according to how much they want you to get it, if my own experience is to be relied upon. Even so, it seem like mon white up de patois to mak im mo ez...I can dig it, it can be unintelligible. Just my observation at an early point. It just seems a little uneven or unauthentic. Maybe his characters actually sound like that...
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