[MH] (Caribbean by Night) Driving Miss Piggy

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Originally Posted by Icelander

I've certainly never been there.

Guyanna is weird and different, I'll give you that. I'm impressed on how much you have managed to get done with it.

Reading his accent is funny, because its mostly right. For example, this line:

“Dis skinny kaka hole think he vex me with am botheration. Everybody all knows I use me handgun only out of the kindness of me heart, so as not to frighten dem bad men and jumbees with me lolo. Hold dem pig, banna, let us make the exodus.”

kaka, vex, and jumbee are dead on. On the other hand, I'm completely unfamiliar with "Banna". Juman has been travelling around the carribean for a while though, so its completely possible he's picked up a lot of west carribean terms, and you've basically said as much, and done a good job of giving yourself wiggle room.

Well, you are the one who named Zamal Juman, suggested his origin and supplied the casting photo of him.

I can't tell from this picture whether that's a very dark-skinned 'pure-blooded' East Indian / Indo-Guyanese or someone of mixed race, most likely both East Indian and African heritage. In particular, the very closely-cropped hair makes it impossible to attempt to use its curliness or lack thereof as any kind of ethnic indicator.

Huh, that pictures a little more ambiguous than I thought at first glance. I suspect he's just indo-Guyanese,but you're right, you can't be sure. The mustache makes me think He's Indian , but that's just hair styling. The skin tone is perfectly within the East Indian range, if just a touch dark. He's not "Very Dark" though. The Indo-Guyanese population is quite dark. This fellow is just a bit on the darker side.

I've been enjoying the story!