Tower Of Babel

Serious Organized Crime Agency? Soca! Well I guess that acronym works up there with the British but I bet that it wouldn’t work in the Caribbean. We would be like you expect me to tek Soca serious? Look boy de only time I duz tek soca serious is Carnival time eh he! And everytime a man pull out his badge and it say soca we would be asking him hummuch tune he singing this year.

Of course it might catch on and if a fella behave bad we might warn him ‘Try and behave or I gine throw some Soca in ya tail’ or see headlines like ‘Soca sharing liks’. and if Soca get into trouble is ‘Baccanal at Soca’.

Things like this though remind me that words have different meanings in different locales. Ya duz got to be careful about who ya say certain things to. Let me tell ya bout this one time

A family member up here got married a few years back and we went to the reception. Walk through the door of the reception hall which was a restaurant and the first thing we see up on the wall was a sign with the specials proclaiming big and bold ‘Friday is Bubbies night!’

Now we were taken aback cause in case you don’t know bubbies is a bajan slang term for breasts and this was a bajan wedding so all a de fellas walk through the door an eyes light up big when we see the sign cause we were like I hear about the bachelor party at a strip club but never the reception.’

Anyway turns out it was a legit restaurant and that bubbies was some sort of drink so we were all a bit deflated to say the least. Still we all had a good laugh and promised to come back the next Friday just in case bubbies weren’t drinks after all.

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