ABSTRACT

Minshall: The other day just outside the mas' camp I was talking to someone who had come down from Jamaica, and in the middle of a very relaxed conversation she said, "But your accent doesn't sound Trinidadian." And I said, "I have two languages. The one in which I am expressing myself now – and my native language." I think in both these languages. Though, when I am most excited, I revert to my native tongue both in thought and in speech.