Caribbean English is crazy because why as a young child was I using words like capsize, lackadaisical, idling, galavanting, and counterpane.
The Cutlass Magazine®️
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The Cutlass Magazine®️
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A platform dedicated to the Indo-Caribbean community and descendants of indentureship around the world.
- Please share the notes with who missed class: ✅ Caribbean ✅ Caribbean people ✅ Caribbean community ✅ Caribbean individual ✅ Caribbean person ✅ Caribbean diaspora ❌ Caribbeans
- My Trinidadian mum deleting a file from her desktop: “Ah draggin he ass in de garbage.”
- This scene from the BBC film “The Hummingbird Tree” (1992) illustrates how the church acted as an agent of racial and religious division in Trinidad. Set in 1946, around the time universal adult suffrage was granted, it captures the prejudices towards Hindus being able to vote.
00:00 - On the occasion of 4/20, we must never forget how instrumental our ancestors were in propagating the recreational, medicinal, and spiritual use of marijuana in the Caribbean. Indians played such a important role that weed is still known locally by the Hindustani name “ganja”.
- Today the intersection of 131st Street and Liberty Avenue in New York was named “Trinidad and Tobago Street”. 📸: Sudarshan Maharaj
- You can be “a West Indian” and therefore we are “West Indians”. You cannot be “a Caribbean” so we are not “Caribbeans” but rather “Caribbean”. Two completely different things and language is complex. “Caribbeans” seems to only be said by those not living in the Caribbean.This will always be a debate lol but I’m still going to say say Caribbeans because if you can say West Indians you surely can say Caribbeans
- Do young Indo-Caribbean people know the historical and cultural significance of the “bera” (bay-ra)?
- When people ask me what is Indo-Caribbean and I am too tired to explain so I send them a picture of my parents:
- Words in 🇹🇹 that mean the same thing: + Chadon Beni (Creole) + Bandhaniya (Hindustani) + Culantro (English)
- Just interviewed a 100-year-old Indian lady in Trinidad and she said “kukurwa ke naam mange” (you want the dog’s name too) because I was asking too many questions 💀
- Happy Father’s Day to the glassmakers 🇹🇹
- Roy Francis Cape (1942 to 2024), the legendary calypso saxophonist from Trinidad and Tobago, has passed away. The oldest and one of the longest active band leaders in the twin island nation’s history, he will forever be remembered. May he rest in peace 🕊️🇹🇹🎷
