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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
more of this gibberish! and I hang out with jamaicans! I can understand any patois, but not UK english... its like Peter Tosh said," My whole life I've been talkin in English but I still no like it, I still can not understand English!"
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To be honest, nothing Glice has said in this thread so far could really be considered English, as such. From what I understand it's more an elaborate form of incantation created by his ancestors many centuries ago in order to ward off things like plague, and progress. I suppose in that sense, Glice's community is quite similar to the various Amish ones you have in the US. Only where they sell mostly wicker, the main source of income for his comes mostly from selling pegs and multi-packs of brillo pads at what we refer to as boot sales. Saying that, many now blend into modern society quite well, although it's still customary even now to see their women-folk (known within his community as Wombs) wearing headscarves similar to the one shown in this picture.
