Characteristics/Features of Creole

There are many 'rules' of Creole. (ignore my cynicism). Here are a few of the main ones. This is a popular question in Paper 01A, so know it!

  •  Habitual action is shown by the use of the word 'does' before the verb in the sentence 
    • She does be real annoyin sometimes 
  • In Creole nouns that are always plural in Standard English are used as both singular and plural
    • Ah ha to go buy a pants today.
    • Jenny bring a scissors to school to stab up Leroy for stealing she man
  • Creole speakers use double negatives. Alot
    • Mary doesn't want no mango from he yard cause he is a obeah man
  • We (Creole speakers) replace the consonant cluster 'th' with 'd'
    • Someone dung dere next to de parlour steal de blasted foul dat meh mudda did give meh 
  • Omission of the 'g' in past participles  
    • He does study be jumpin dem fence 
    • Doh feel yuh could be playin up in yuh arse here inno! Diz not yuh mudda house!
  • Silencing of the end consonants of words.
    • Chile, who yuh feel yuh is? 
    • What yuh have in tuh han dere? Eh? Is my chennet yuh theifin so? 
  • Insertion of of 'y' in words (idk the exact rule...you just insert ys everywhere) 
    • Gyal, meh sista was drivin she cyar in Cyaroni de odda day and she run outta gyas. Jones fuh so!  
  • Repetition of words for emphasize 
    • How yuh chuppid-chuppid so? 
    • Yeah she ha she big-big house now, she forget who is we. 
  • the word 'did' is used in place of 'was'. 
    • I did get here early (vs. I was here early)
  • the word 'was' can be used with any subject.
    • They was here since tree dis morning
    • we was coming home when we did see she on de corner wit she man. 
  • Future tense is formed by placing either 'go', 'going', 'going to' or 'would' before the verb.
    • I go do fi yuh gyal! 
    • We going to go by dem next week 
    • Yuh go buy de puncheon fuh de party right? 
Ok allyuh go study allyuh wok now, iz be real hard typing like dis dread. Yuh does usually get a passage to read and dey go ask yuh fuh dem Creole rule and dem. Yuh go ha to write it down and ting nah. 

Okay go find all the Creole-isms in that ^^^^ 

Comments

  1. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2015 at 8:02 PM

    The insertion of the Y Palatalization I believe.

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  2. Girl in BlueMarch 2, 2017 at 6:27 PM

    Studying for a test. This was very helpful1 thank you :)

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