Reply to: I want a Cab, innit

[Churchill]

Dey is reclaimin' dayer roots, init.

Like the twats that reject the English names they were born with an adopt some kind of faux African name. Like that plonker who's always on Newsnight Review - Kwame Cumquot, (born Ian Roberts!) or some such.

Surely that was African enough?

[bogeyman]

Reminds me of a black chap I was in uni with, he had a perfect RP accent... seemed quite incongruous compared with some of the African patois that was more usual, but much much easier to comprehend...

I often wonder whatever happened to some of these people.

Dey is reclaimin' dayer roots, init.

Like the twats that reject the English names they were born with an adopt some kind of faux African name. Like that plonker who's always on Newsnight Review - Kwame Cumquot, (born Ian Roberts!) or some such.

BTW don't get me started on the tossers who appear on Newsnight Review

[wobbegong]

You get your chavspeak down south, but you should hear what we need to contend with up here in Scotland. It seems that everyone between 14 and 23 wears a lacoste trackie and speaks with a lanarkshire accent regardless of where they live. And then end every sentence with the word "nomeen", which I think is a contraction of "does one know what I mean?". Makes me mad.

[viz tip]Chavs, avoid having to suffix every sentence with "naarmean?", by talking properly in the first place, thus ensuring you are instantly understood by the listener.[/viz tip]

[roadster198]

I'm not entirely sure I liked being lumped in with a bunch of sassanachs, to be used as a tool of comparison.

Aye. Gonni noe dae that, jist gonni noe.

it's only chav scots that talk like that my friend

[Moscow Mule]

As for Cardiff in the cup final - "Play up Pompey" (Yes I am a Pompey fan)

bloomin skates.

[NickFitz]

Makes me laugh, especially all the white kids trying to be black.

Or indeed the black kids trying to be black.

Some years ago at a friend's house there was a black guy who talked with a very strong accent in some kind of Jamaican patois mixed with Gangsta talk (or whatever it's called).

After he left my friend explained that they'd been at school together, and until he was about sixteen the bloke had talked perfectly good English with a distinctly middle-class accent

[oracleslave]

Spelling amended.

"nomeen" - know what I mean. Its how the neds say it - honestly.

It's

They intend it as a question, hence my grammar.

PS. Ignore me, am being a git.

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

Spelling amended.

"nomeen" - know what I mean. Its how the neds say it - honestly.

[oracleslave]

You get your chavspeak down south, but you should here waht we need to contend with up here in Scotland. It seems that everyone between 14 and 23 wears a lacoste trackie and speaks with a lanarkshire accent regardless of where they live. And then end every sentence with the word "nomeen", which I think is a contraction of "does one know what I mean?". Makes me mad.

hear

what

nomeen?

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

You get your chavspeak down south, but you should hear what we need to contend with up here in Scotland. It seems that everyone between 14 and 23 wears a lacoste trackie and speaks with a lanarkshire accent regardless of where they live. And then end every sentence with the word "nomeen", which I think is a contraction of "does one know what I mean?". Makes me mad.

[BA to the Stars]

Bit of a commute to fratton park from Yorkshire I'd have thought?

504 miles round trip

And sometimes you wonder why, then other times (like last week) it makes it seem so worthwhile

[oracleslave]

As for Cardiff in the cup final - "Play up Pompey" (Yes I am a Pompey fan)

Bit of a commute to fratton park from Yorkshire I'd have thought?

[BA to the Stars]

anybody who says off of should be shot

as in I got off of the motorway
I picked it up off of the table


no, you got off the motorway
you picked it up off the table

Or says "What" (pronounced whaaarttt) instead of pardon

Sounds like a flock of crows in full cry

[snaw]

I agree, but we do have a common language (Welsh & Celtic speakers acknowledged but are minority languages). Throughout the nation, we have regional accents but it is the introduction of this "chav speak" for want of a better phrase that is the problem highlighted on this thread. A Geordie, Scot, Cockney, Brummie, et al would all ask for a cab or a taxi. The pronouniciation may be different but no-one would end the word cab or taxi with innit. What these people do not realise is that whilst they think it may make them appear cool within their own peer groups, it gives everyone else the impression that they are too lazy to learn their own native tongue and come across as uneducated.

As for Cardiff in the cup final - "Play up Pompey" (Yes I am a Pompey fan)

I'm not entirely sure I liked being lumped in with a bunch of sassanachs, to be used as a tool of comparison.

Aye. Gonni noe dae that, jist gonni noe.

[Bagpuss]

anybody who says off of should be shot

as in I got off of the motorway
I picked it up off of the table


no, you got off the motorway
you picked it up off the table