from me born
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Jamaican Creole from mi bawn.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (Jamaica) Since the time I was born; during my entire life.
- Quoted in 2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (page 92)
- I don't read, I never been to a school for reading: no, I never write a letter from me born neither do I read one […]
- 2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons:
- But from me born, me never hear 'bout no girl wha' fall in love with her little brother.
- 2017 January 28, Jediael Carter, “That impressive ‘little artist’ from Craighead”, in Jamaica Observer:
- "I don’t really know enuh miss, but from me born I just love drawing. I’m always drawing," he stated. "I draw a lot of different things, like cars, farm animals, and nuff other things."
- 2018 June 2, Carlene Davis, “Save the youths with music! - Southside wants a recording studio to occupy the minds of unattached youngsters”, in The Gleaner:
- "If you check the area in a central Kingston, from me born 35 years ago, there has never been a studio in the area. The youth them always have to go find a bus fare fi go elsewhere, so you know how much that take from them.
"Every other community probably has a studio near, but nobody never really come and say mek we put a studio on the main or somewhere near this community," said Morgan.
- Quoted in 2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (page 92)
References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary (2020).
Jamaican Creole
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Alternative form of from mi bawn
- 1975, Vera D. Rubin, Lambros Comitas, Ganja in Jamaica: A medical anthropological study of chronic marihuana use, Mouton & Co. (publ.), page 121.
- When asked if ganja made him feel sociable, one subject replied, “Me social from me born.”
- When asked if ganja made him feel sociable, one subject replied, “I have been social since I was born.”
- 1997, Opal Palmer Adisa, It Begins with Tears, Heinemann (publ.), page 150.
- ‘Praise be! From me born me neva see such wickedness.' Beryl heaved her chest and folded her hands in a gesture of defiance.
- ‘Praise be! Since my birth I have never seen such wickedness.' Beryl heaved her chest and folded her hands in a gesture of defiance.
- [2002, Frederic G. Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English, 2nd edition (in English), University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, FROM, page 190:
- “FROM […] chiefly dial; […] Esp in set phrases: from me born, from me a little boy, from me was a child, from me was at me knee […] ”]
- 2007, Munga Honourable, “Bad from Mi Born”, in Reggae Gold 2007[1]:
- Mi bad from mi born / And that's why mi gwaan so.
- I've always been a bad guy / That's why I behave like that.
- 1975, Vera D. Rubin, Lambros Comitas, Ganja in Jamaica: A medical anthropological study of chronic marihuana use, Mouton & Co. (publ.), page 121.
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