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When you are having a conversation with a coworker, classmate, or even a stranger and they ask "is that a Jamaican accent I hear?"
When your Mom is on the phone with someone from Trinidad and tells them hold on, here he/she is. "Say hello to your Aunt, Uncle, cousin, niece, nephew, family friend, in-law, or the neighborhood pot-hound"
You unknowingly turn on and off your trini accent like a light switch.
Whether you still have your trini accent, slightly have it, or it is hibernating, there are some words that remain fixed in your speech. e.g. Three = Tree, Through = True, Bathe = Bade, and so on.
You can be a couple thousand miles from Trinidad and Tobago and immersed in American culture but you still grew up with the finest Trinidadian "licks" in your life a.k.a good parenting.
You laugh when your American friends say hot sauce is spicy/hot because you clearly know pepper sauce from Trinidad is an inner and outer body experience.
When you get to an anticipated soca event/party/fete but you hear reggae for the majority of the time and then only one soca song at the end. e.g. Kevin Lyttle - "Turn me on"
When some U.S. trini roti shops tend to microwave their roti instead of making it fresh to order. I mean you still eat it but come on.
You would definitely take a trini breakfast over I.H.O.P. or Dennys any day. e.g. Fry bake/Coconut bake, salt fish buljol/smoke herring, sada roti, pumpkin, fry plantain, and the works.
You go to school some days with your clothes smelling like curry because somebody did not close the room door from dinner the night before. Also, you have an amazing curry manicure for at least a day.
Can any other trinis who grew up in the U.S. relate to this?
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