Someone remarked to me online that youre the only person I know who says, at all, at all. Where did a Mohawk from Kahnawake pick up an Irish idiom? My answer is as follows: Sometimes what I say actually say is, at all, at all, at all (three of them), and it sounds more like atoll, atoll, atoll. I pick up things like that from individuals I know, or from characters in a movie, or from traveling around, anything that catches my ear that is not normally in ones everyday speech. The expression at all, at all, at all comes from a friend of mine, a Montrealer whos originally from Barbados and who has never lost her Bajan form of speech or her Bajan expressions. For instance, she never waters the plants, she wets the plants. Other examples of the Barbadian use of at all, at all, at all are as follows: Speaking bout fowls, I hear chicken gone up again, the price o chicken like it does go up every half hour; I cant get it understand at all, at all, at all ... AND ALSO, These Bajans hay in got nuh sense of humour, at all, at all, at all! ... AND ALSO, De ting is, if I was in buh-bay-dus, I woulda be de same body complainin bout de hot sun, boy, yuh caain please uh bajan at all, at all, at all … - the forgoing examples can easily be found googling around.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:28:21 +0000
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