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StuAff
Joined: 15 May 2008
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Location: Portsmouth
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 Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 2:21 pm |
Jim's hit on a point I've thought of before, particularly in relation to Armstrong & Miller's chav-talking pilots...the kind of thing that shows up how idiotic they sound. A pet hate of mine is '...and that'. And that what exactly?
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NGale
Joined: 19 Sep 2008
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Location: Exeter, Devon
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nicktheluddite
Joined: 20 Jun 2009
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Location: sunny Bristol
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davidmarsden
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
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Location: SW London
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:43 pm |
As a scouser, I've been using slang all though my life. Although I notice that the "kids" are speaking using a harsh tone now-a-days; kinda sounding like they're on smack.
However, I love slang, the constant innovation of the english language is very exciting. With the whole point of slang being that the main population doesn't 'get it' or even like it. My only concern being that we don't get to the point were people only know the slang and not the correct english. ie when people in work write an email in text speak.. "man that rags me nuts"
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joebingo
Joined: 21 Aug 2009
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Posted Sun Nov 8, 2009 1:03 am |
Seeing as I only finished school and college a couple of years ago, I'm party to using some of the words mentioned in this thread as part of my normal parlance. Some of the more ridiculous ones, however, still make me laugh a lot.
One of the best (worst?) is the continuation of 'sick' meaning good. It progressed to being 'ill', and finally, 'poorly'. As in 'yeah man, dat nu album is poorly bruv'. Quite disturbing!
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) but some of this 'Yoof' speak really grates on me to the point whereby if I get it on the phone at work I find myself correcting them and even counting the amount of times the little gits say words like 'innit' and 'like'
saying he fell over is a statement of fact, it's all I need to know, but to then make it worse by using the word literally in a manner which suggests it's worse than it is. Further to that to say 'falled' in the same sense just p***** me off even further. I tend to correct such eejits with 'So he's FALLEN over?'