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Understood.
Jamaican patois is annoying to me if it's affected by someone who isn't from Jamaica (just as ebonics being adopted by white teens in rural and suburban areas bugs me in a similar way) , but it's a dialect like anything else. You will sound like people sound where you grew up. No big deal.
In fact, the only time any of this really gets on my nerves is when it's spelled out in print like it sounds verbally. That is the most destructive and annoying part of the whole thing to me, and it's just as annoying when it's Jamaican patois as it is when it's urban American patois.
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