Jamaican Patois · Portland

Di food sweet!

The food tastes great!

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di fuud swiit
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Portland, Boston Bay

“Sweet” praises quality — food, music, or life — rather than describing sugar.

Patois is a language in its own right, with grammar that is not English grammar. The meaning above is how a speaker would use this phrase, not a word-for-word translation.

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