Things Guyana does well 1. Greetings (& slang). You will never be as cool as some of the Guyanese here. They’re effortlessly cool in a way most people can only observe from a distance. From handshakes to greetings to gait most people have a swagger and coolness unmatched by the Western World. My new favourite greeting is now ‘wamdeh’ literally short for ‘What happened there’ or as is in my current phrasebook ‘wot u saying’. 2. Drinking in the evenings. I don’t think it is particularly farfetched to assume that in the UK, if you opened a bar at a workplace where beers were £1.50 and men were at said bar for 2 weeks at a time, many a night would be a drunken one, brawls included. Here however, drinks are imbibed (I learnt a new word this week) in the evening in a civilised manner (as civilised as you can be drinking beer). Furthermore, the canteen will be filled at 05:15 with men breaking fast regardless of the pre...
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