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in reply to a message by lezzie
I like the sound of Irie but it seems very Rastafarian to me. I'm not very Rastafarian so I wouldn't use it but it would be nice on someone else's kid.
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Irie is a Jamaican slang word, I'm pretty sure...
pro EYE-ree, I saw it on keychains when I was in Jamaica. They use it like "all good"/"cool"/"great"/"life's chill"/"all right" etc...
edit: I just saw a def. on a website of Jamaican slang that says Irie means "to be happy" - like that song "Don't Worry, Be Happy!" lol I remind my tour guide telling me that.
edit: here's the website, http://www.speakjamaican.com/glossary.html
"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"
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pro EYE-ree, I saw it on keychains when I was in Jamaica. They use it like "all good"/"cool"/"great"/"life's chill"/"all right" etc...
edit: I just saw a def. on a website of Jamaican slang that says Irie means "to be happy" - like that song "Don't Worry, Be Happy!" lol I remind my tour guide telling me that.
edit: here's the website, http://www.speakjamaican.com/glossary.html
- Serenity
This message was edited 9/12/2006, 8:59 PM
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Jamaica and Rastafarianism are intertwined. Irie is listed as a Rastafarian term on wiktionary and other sites.
I knew a girl named Irie and she pronounced it eye-REE which I think would be indistinguishable from EYE-ree in most conversation. I believe she had a caribbean background although I'm not sure if she was necessarily Jamaican.
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
~Mark Twain
I knew a girl named Irie and she pronounced it eye-REE which I think would be indistinguishable from EYE-ree in most conversation. I believe she had a caribbean background although I'm not sure if she was necessarily Jamaican.
~Mark Twain
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Not everybody in Jamaica is Rastafarian though - I actually saw more Christian churches than anything while I was there. Just as Rastafarianism isn't contained to JUST Jamaica... however, I've been to several of the Caribbean islands several times and only in Jamaica have I heard "irie" used in conversation...
edit: which is why I preferred to say it's a Jamaican term rather than Rastafarian.
"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds - Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
- Serenity
edit: which is why I preferred to say it's a Jamaican term rather than Rastafarian.
- Serenity
This message was edited 9/12/2006, 10:08 PM
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