How to pronounce “patois” in English

With Patois, part of why maybe it has a slightly easier time is that it's more different.So if you speak Patois, you speak something where, unless I listen closely and I have a little bit of training, I don't know what you're saying.And so that's really something that's a different language.

So I find this very fascinating after reading the book, because I'm Jamaican and grew up in America,so at home, I spoke Patois.Jealous. And in the streets, I still speak Patois.

so at home, I spoke Patois.Jealous. And in the streets, I still speak Patois.And growing up in a predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhood, I guess I spoke Black English.

It's accepted in Jamaica or in Haiti.But there's still-- But still, like you can't go to work or to school speaking Patois.So talk about, why do you think it's not accepted in the US?

And what role does racism have in that lack of acceptance?Well, one thing that you get at usefully is that in Jamaica, there are terrible things said about Patois.There are people who disavow using it.

So there's an objection, and then you speak about this in the book, "But they can't talk that way at a job interview."And again, being Jamaican, I could never go anywhere and speak-- my mother would slap me, literally-- Patois, because it's embarrassing.You come off as uneducated.

One of the most controversial ideas from the book is something that I call the viral myth.I think that when something becomes popular out of nowhere now, it's become casual and it's become the patois to say, oh,that thing went viral.

warm hard dough bread, dripping with butter.I sat there, watching Ms. Mama eat and listening to the exchange, my grandmother asking questions in the Queen's English, Ms. Mama responding in patois.They continued on for some time, Ms. Mama chronicling her tough circumstances, my grandmother offering words of comfort and encouragement, until the crumbs disappeared