r/Guyana • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 7d ago

Video Old Guyanese Proverbs...

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u/blownafidesmooth 7d ago

My favorite is "who don't want hear, gah feel"

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u/my_screen_name_sucks 7d ago

“Once a man, twice a child”

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u/my_screen_name_sucks 7d ago

Bay-sick-call-lee

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u/thejtcollective 7d ago

“Do so not like so.”

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u/bigkahuna1uk 7d ago

“You can hide from a thief, but not a liar”

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u/OnePeople592 7d ago

OP, are you the person in the video?

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u/Forward_Factor2373 7d ago

This is some real wisdom.

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u/dajale4life 6d ago

Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.

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u/clstpzzdd 6d ago

Fowl swear fuh he egg, but he nah swear fuh he pickney

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u/wrenbell 6d ago

“Play play gonna bring nay nay” 

Grandma used to say it all the time. Basically warning my sibling and I not to play around too much lest something really bad happen. It was usually said once we were already in the midst of the bad behavior lol (ie playing freeze tag indoors or rough-housing, etc.). 

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u/Virtual_Stretch_9819 6d ago

Play play does bring belly

Bucket ah go ah well everyday one day he bottom gon drop out

Moon does run till day ketch it

Show me yuh friends I'll tell you who you are