Jamaican the Pidgin English... the Language?

Probably not, but the accent is beautiful.

Patois is more than a Jamaican accent Roger.

I knew someone who spoke that, and it was very hard for me to understand him.

What's wrong with the title of Patois?

Auntie #1 sounds like the guy I knew. I really can't understand 90% of it.

I can understand Auntie #2 a little better.

It sure sounds like everyone is having fun though.

My reason is that people who know it rarely identify themselves as bilingual as being able to speak it and English. Possibly due to the ease with which most speakers can speak both interchangably.

Much the same is true of Haitians. They speak a Creole which most Francophones have difficulty understanding. But it's no problem for them to switch to standard French.

Probably because it's French?

Every night me wreck a pum pum

Really?

she like it long... she like it strong...

ah....just looked it up.

I didn't realized patois referred to any style of non-standard language.
I thought that was what it was actually called.

Jamaican English or Jamaican Standard English is a dialect of English spoken in Jamaica. It melds parts of both American English and British English dialects. Typically it uses British English spellings and often rejects American English spellings.[1]
Although the distinction between the two is best described as a continuum rather than a solid line,[2] it is not to be confused with Jamaican Patois (what linguists call Jamaican Creole), nor with the vocabulary and language usage of the Rastafarian movement.[3] ("Patois" or Patwa is a French term referring to regional languages of France, which include some Creole languages, but in Jamaica it refers to Jamaican Creole, which Jamaicans have traditionally seen as "broken" or incorrect Standard English).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_English