BIONTSAMS!
Believe it or not this shit actually makes sense!
U know I sat down the other day and actually thought to myself how funny it is that as u grow up u learn many catch phrases, some of them stick, some of them fade until u have friends like mine who want to be in on the latest trends that revive the old ones as new ones.
I’ve never been able 2 be in on any of these unfortunately. Ah lie! I did help to buss “G.Y.B.” amongst my friends & 2 this day girls are still trying 2 figure out the real meaning behind that phrase LOL! (No pun intended)
But growing up we didn’t know what an “lol” was or an “smh”. I grew up using actual words or phrases like “cree” (well that’s not an actual word but see where I’m going with this) which meant time-out and u crossed ur middle finger and the one beside the thumb (forgive me I have no clue wtf that finger between the middle one and the thumb is called, is it the index finger or is the middle one called index? I always get confused).
In prep school here in JA we had phrases like “You get bulla!” which in essence meant you didn’t get jack shit! That’s the best way to describe it honestly! That evolved to “You get buff!” which mean you got dissed big time or insulted mainly by a girl that you liked but back then we didn’t treat the girls we liked nicely. Instead we showed our affection by insulting and treating them as badly as we could because that’s actually what we did best. Don’t ask, I still don’t get the logic.
In the early day’s of high school this changed to “flop” which also meant you got insulted, which eventually evolved into a weird stretch of syllables “meeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”.
Pronounced exactly as it’s spelt.
And how could I forget "VVVVVVVVV!" which meant that you did or said something gay or strange (no I'm not homophobic or prejudice but that was the expression at the time) which was usually followed by a symbol made with your fingers to shape a V.
Pronounced exactly as it’s spelt.
And how could I forget "VVVVVVVVV!" which meant that you did or said something gay or strange (no I'm not homophobic or prejudice but that was the expression at the time) which was usually followed by a symbol made with your fingers to shape a V.
Now in the age of Blackberry messenger, Google Chat and the little used MSN [at least in my book, don’t like it "GOMFP!" (Get off my fucking page!)], my daily life revolves around all these acronyms that sometimes I have to press the pause button and replay in my head to figure out the exact meaning. Ppl… sorry, people are talking online daily with phrases like:
Lol – Laugh out loud
Lmfao – Laughing my fucking ass off (this one’s kind’ve ummm… yeah)
Rofl – rolling on the floor while laughing
Smh – Shake my head
Omg – Oh my God
Hold up, I have to put in a foot note right here because I have noticed more than one time while in the middle of a video chat, I will say something corny or funny that I actually laugh about and the other party will type ‘dwl’ or ‘lmfao’ but they’re sitting there and I don’t know if they’ve forgotten that I can see them but they ain’t fucking laughing.
Ok, back to our regular scheduled programme...
I have always applauded Jamaicans on their creativity and their ability to make everything unique to us and as a result we have already developed our own acronyms that have already started to be used by ppl that aren’t even Jamaican. Words like:
Kmt – Kiss my teeth - this is a low hissing sound that you can literally make by clenching your teeth together and drawing air through them.
Bbc – Bumboclaat – if you’ve ever heard anything about Jamaica you would’ve heard about our expressive style of cursing. There’s no explanation or meaning to this word that can explain how strong it is.
Bbrc – Bumborassclaat – confused expression on face as I proceed to type this one to one of my friends in this very moment.
Dwl – Dead wid laugh - dying of laughter
Kmrc – Kiss my rassclaat – basically in layman’s terms it means to “Kiss my ass!” but we had to be colorful with it.
I mean, seriously? What’s next?
The other night I was out at a bar enjoying a Johnny Walker & Coconut Water (if you haven’t tried it, I’m going to take this opportunity to give you my professional alcoholic opinion: This shit is the boss! Get to drinkin’!), when this girl beside me in the midst of her convo exclaims, “LOL!" followed by an "OMG!” I mean she literally spelt the letters and I sat there wondering what the hell ever happened to just laughing?
Nehow, let me get bk to my wrk. Thanx for reading. Enjoy ur day. Ttyl!
