Mad beyond belief!

[Irinka]

Josey, I understand you perfectly.

[JetSet]

A little lesson on the way we talk in Toronto, yo.
Irinka should be able to understand this PERFECTLY.

Artist: Kardinall Offishall feat. Saukrates
Song: Bakardi Slang

Background: Bakardi slang refers to talk on the streets of T.O. (which is short for, Toronto, Ontario)

[Kardinall Offishall]

Yo
We don't say 'you know what I'm sayin'
T dot says 'ya dun know'
We don't say 'hey that's the breaks'
we say 'yo, a so it go'
We don't say 'you get one chance'
We say 'you better rip the show'
Before bottles start flyin and you runnin for the door
Y'all talking about 'cuttin and hittin skins'
We talkin bout 'beat dat face'
T dot niggaz will eat your food before y'all cats say grace
You cats is steady saying 'word'
My cats is steady yellin 'zeen'
Half the time we talking about 'more times'
We don't even know what 'more times' means!
'More times we rocker fresher'
'More times we come correct'
More times you think it's the hot shi+
You haven't heard nuttin yet
Differently, still ya kno
The cirlce gettin ill ya know
Step on the wrong Bally boot and you might get kill ya know
So every might walk through a dance tell a youth 'xcuse me'
I'm tellin your jubie 'I like her style'
She's talkin about 'abuse me'
Use me show me how the T dot rolls
My style is off the thermostat plus I'm comin from the cold-yo

CHORUS [Kardinal] (Saukrates)
(What the... chill!)
My nigga's in the street throwin dot slang each and every single time we meet
(What the... chill!)
My ladies lookin hot, screw face kissin teet
represtentin the T dot
Kardinal rock the pary, T dot drinking Bacardi
Kardi drinkin Bacardi, T dot rocking the party
Nigga's jumpin and wildin and ladies showin a smile
And everybody know its 'the T dot

[Kardinal Offishall]
So when we singin about the girls we singin about the 'gyal dem'
Y'all talkin about 'say that one more time'
We talkin about 'yo, come again'
Y'all talkin about 'that nigga's a punk'
We talkin about 'that yout's a fosse'
For the kids that think I'm comin wit it
Brother just watch me
A shoe is called a 'crep'
A big party is a 'fete'
Ya'll takin about 'watch where you goin!'
We talkin about 'mind where you step!'
We backin a 2-4 of Guiness, we ain't messin' with moet
And if you runnin out of liquor the bar might get wet
You're talkin about 'yo, that girl's hype'
We like 'she's the bundown'
Y'all say 'a DJ battle'
We say 'clash with two sounds'
We rock the hottest things no matter how much it cost
You talkin about 'yeah son!'
We talkin about 'yo, lock it off!'
Wheel that and tek it from de top
And just flash up unno lighta and watch the dance rock
Kardinal is gonna show you how the T dot rolls
My style is off the thermostat plus I'm comin from the cold-yo

CHORUS

[Kardinal Offishall]
Y'all steady talkin about 'your boys'
We talkin about 'de man dem'
We talkin about 'your breddren
We talkin about 'your friend'
When you say 'the club is over'
Yo we say 'the jam done'
When we thinkin about the west, we thinkin about Red-1
Big ups and salutations to the Figure IV crew
When you sayin 'she's a chicken'
She a 'skettlebam too!'
When you talkin about a 'thug nigga'
We talkin about a 'shotta'
When you think you got it locked, T dot comin much hotta
You think we all Jamacian, when nuff man are Trini's
Bajans, Grenadians and a hole heap of Ukrainians
Guyanese and all of the West Indies combined
To make the T dot O dot, one of a kind
Irs said 'we burn kahn' that mean 'they puff lah'
When we say 'hell no', that means you 'that nuh mek it'
Look me in the eye and tell me y'all ain't sold
My style is off the thermostat plus I'm comin from the cold-yo

[Irinka]

I don't like slang

[volya]

Hi, Irinka,
I'm happy that your sister has a nice teacher already.But to say the truth, we "Ukrainian "Ukrainianashave no problem with Canadian Ukrainian language.It does sound a little unusual to us, but the differences are not that significant. We also call it "Diaspora's Ukrainian"
So, good luck anyway!And if you gave any questions about the language, I'll be happy to answer!

[Bodia]

When I visited Canada two years ago, I found language the Ukrainian Canadians speak a bit funny. No offence, but we call it village language, as only older people speak right now. No problems understanding though, even though Canadian 'banyaky' not always followed me when I spoke fast.

[Timofei]

I was travelling through western Ukraine recently with an American friend of Ukrainian ancestry who was very active in the US Ukrainian community and had gone to Ukrainian school as a kid, but had learned Ukrainian entirely in the US and had never before actually been to Ukraine. Besides an obvious American accent and antiquated words, he had a tendency to pronounce things in a very Polish sounding way - he would pronounce ж as в and я as ь and so on. Much to his annoyance people would often say "Ty shcho, polyak?" Later on though, I was very surprised to talk with some old women in the countryside of L'viv oblast' who had exactly the same accent.

Timofei