from me born

prepositional phrase

Since the time I was born; during my entire life.

Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. JamaicaSince the time I was born; during my entire life.

    But from me born, me never hear 'bout no girl wha' fall in love with her little brother.

    2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons
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    I don't read, I never been to a school for reading: no, I never write a letter from me born neither do I read one […]

    Quoted in 2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (page 92)

    "I don’t really know enuh miss, but from me born I just love drawing. I’m always drawing," he stated. "I draw a lot of different things, like cars, farm animals, and nuff other things."

    2017 January 28, Jediael Carter, “That impressive ‘little artist’ from Craighead”, in Jamaica Observer

    "If you check the area in a central Kingston, from me born 35 years ago, there has never been a studio in the area. The youth them always have to go find a bus fare fi go elsewhere, so you know how much that take from them. "Every other community probably has a studio near, but nobody never really come and say mek we put a studio on the main or somewhere near this community," said Morgan.

    2018 June 2, Carlene Davis, “Save the youths with music! - Southside wants a recording studio to occupy the minds of unattached youngsters”, in The Gleaner

Origin

  1. Jamaican Creolefrom mi bawn
  2. Englishfrom me born

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole from mi bawn.

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