Great Video, :-) As a Caymanian with a Jamacian father and Cuban mother, educated early with British teachers and then to Cayman Islands High School, I was (still is) screwed (talented) with my different accents. But what was really freaky was while on a trip to IRELAND I took a trip outside the city and sat in a small country restaurant and listened as the locals spoke in Caymanian accents. :-) .
From Texas, moving to England (eventually). I was a bit drunk and referred to something "a bunch of weird-ass bullshit." My Cockney friends were practically on the floor
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing. I would love to know about the Cayman Vocabulary (bobo etc). Also, the relationship between expats and cayman... how did that start? Why are all other caribbean countries predominately native with a very very small expat population in comparison to cayman. Cheers
Hi, cousin Gary Bodden here from California. My Uncle Billy Bodden started the islands first newspaper in the early 1970s, but he committed suicide shortly after, we really don't why something to do with a broken heart. My dad ashes were spread in George town harbor in 1982. I was lucky enough to live there in 1960 to 1961 and went to school 4th-grade, that was behind the church that was across the port from where the banana boats came in, is where I remember it being. I remember turtle stew, breadfruit and the genip tree next to the school. I remember a friend of ours that lived across the street his name was Oran Marin or Meran, his parent's owned the Bayview or Seaview Motel when we lived at Aunt Annie's house right across the street from the ocean. We would catch soldier craps under the house and go catch lunch for our mom to cook for us. I haven't been back to Cayman since 1961, and after seeing the videos of today and how commercialized it's become, I rather remember the way it was, it was Paradise than!! Much Love Cousin, Take Care!!! From; Gary Bodden 69 years old today.
Why are Africans simply described as just "slaves"? But everyone else got a detailed description. Enslaved Africans from West Africa, you know, the people that built the island and provided the culture.
Yes, this is something that gets said over and over as a norm, but people need to learn our African ancestors weren't simply "slaves", they were ENslaved.
My doctor today said she's from the Cayman Islands, which is pretty cool in the UK. Not that it matters but she's white. At first I thought she was Irish or American but she sounds like you in the intro.
To me it sounds like a more Americanized British, with a little Jamaican/Caribbean spice thrown in. Been awhile since I been there though, going in December, let's see.
That’s not true. If anything Jamaicans & St Vincies sound similar. Trini’s ‘sing’ when the speak. It’s almost a long continual sentence. Bajans have a particular twang on the letter ‘ R’. So you see...we’re all very unique
Shonari, cayman has no indigenous people so asking how our relationship with "expats" is meaningless. The first people who actually settled on the island were British and next in line were slaves from Africa. So I would imagine these people had family and initiated trade with folks back at home. The mixing of these people on this particular set of Islands is what has since become known as Caymanians. Also Cayman is geographically closer to the United states than a lot of the other Caribbean countries with the exception of Cuba, Bahamas, Puerto Rico etc.
I did read somewhere that the Cayman accent used to sound quite Welsh. Although there are some similarities with Welsh and the Carib accents, I couldn't hear it in your voice. To me , you sound mostly American, with a slight Carib twist,
Hello. I did the Ancestry DNA test. It says Wales 3%, Ireland 1%. I'm half black Honduran. I know my ancestors went from Belize, Cayman Islands and/ or Jamaica to Honduras. Do you have Welsh or Irish heritage or know if people from Wales or Ireland migrated to the Cayman Islands during the colonial period?
What I want to know is if you are really speaking with a full Caymanian accent here or if you are speaking closer to foreign English to make it more understandable or relatable to foreigners watching the video. I have never heard a Caymanian speak, this is the first time. So I really don't know. But to my ear, you sound like you are probably not speaking in as thick of a local accent as you normally would. That would be my guess.
He's definitely speaking a better english so ppl can understand. See how at the end he changed his accent, and when he was talking on the phone to his "baby"
The Welsh accent is so much like Jamaican. Bahamians sound like the Gullah dialect from Charleston, SC area. I got the double whammy because my Mummy is Caymanian and I am Bahamian. Loved the talk on the phone. I thought this video was going to be more of that . . .
