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How to Call Someone/Something ‘Stupid’ Like a Dominican.

Being a Dominican means that we speak creolized English- that is English and creole used all at once. It is sometimes so much easier for us as Dominicans to express how we truly feel and to do so passionately through the use of colloquial terms.

Below is a list of the expressions that Dominicans use to tell another person that he/she is stupid without using the word stupid. Based on the intonation used, some of these expressions can either make one feel that they are just ‘silly’ or plain out ‘daft’.

Which of these do you use the most?

  1. Ou toh Sot
  2. Zeh-zeh
  3. Mac-kak
  4. Dunce-cat
  5. Dum-dum
  6. Majee
  7. Ah-beh-beh
  8. Teh-beh
  9. Dotish
  10. Dor-dor
  11. Coshonie
  12. Ig-no-wah
  13. Mal-tete
  14. Ped-tete
  15. Sorti douva mwe (if someone is really being outrageous. Literally translated into ‘get out of here’)

Being a Dominican means that we speak creolized English- that is English and creole used all at once. It is sometimes so much easier for us as Dominicans to express how we truly feel and to do so passionately through the use of colloquial terms.

Below is a list of the expressions that Dominicans use to tell another person that he/she is stupid without using the word stupid. Based on the intonation used, some of these expressions can either make one feel that they are just ‘silly’ or plain out ‘daft’.

Which of these do you use the most?

  1. Ou toh Sot
  2. Zeh-zeh
  3. Mac-kak
  4. Dunce-cat
  5. Dum-dum
  6. Majee
  7. Ah-beh-beh
  8. Teh-beh
  9. Dotish
  10. Dor-dor
  11. Coshonie
  12. Ig-no-wah
  13. Mal-tete
  14. Ped-tete
  15. Sorti douva mwe (if someone is really being outrageous. Literally translated into ‘get out of here’)

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy.

The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making

The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy.

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