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HEATHER: Maybe I agree to a point with Anne. Perhaps a typical Jamaican when angry as we say it 'brok out' into Patois. However based on how I was raised in my family we were just not allowed to speak Patois and it was only in my adulthood, really after I met my husband, that this Patois thing became a bit cool [laughter] and not just cool but a conscious Jamaican, enlightening thing to do to celebrate an apsect of our culture by speaking Jamaican so I don't naturally tend to speak Patois when I'm angry, I would do it more so for the fun of it for the humour of certain Patois expressions and perhaps deliberately use it err say with my children or with my husband to emphasise a certain point. But it would take a little bit of thought on my part, it's certainly not my natural use of English but I choose to use it when appropriate.

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