this has been going on for years. nearly all, white teenage subcultures are white kids emulating black ones.
i suggest you read some hebdige.
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white kids talking like black kids?
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look, accents occur naturally, i've got a brummy twang, i don't put it on it just comes out, the same goes for scouse, geordie, scots, mancs, cockney, caribbean etc etc.
my point is that these goons are not speaking in there natural tongue, they're putting it on. i'm not saying it's right or wrong, i just find it laughable.
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look, accents occur naturally, i've got a brummy twang, i don't put it on it just comes out
where did it come from. parents/ peers/ schooling a mixture. its not genetic that's for sure
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thomthumb -
look, accents occur naturally, i've got a brummy twang, i don't put it on it just comes outwhere did it come from. parents/ peers/ schooling a mixture. its not genetic that's for sure
ain't got a clue, good question that we should put to the stw experts. why do we have accents, not trendy put on ones but the everyday ones that everyone, young or old talk with?
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My nephew and niece go to an expensive public school. They and all their friends sound like they have all come out from Brixton until Mummy and Daddy turn up when they revert to the 2010 version of RP.
I think you're just proving the point that ways of speaking are products of environment, aren't you? They're "code switching" to the environment and what image they want to convey: reet cool and street to their friends, water in Majorca to their parents. The question is which one is their "real" way of speaking - if there is one.Posted 1 year ago # -
ain't got a clue, good question that we should put to the stw experts. why do we have accents, not trendy put on ones but the everyday ones that everyone, young or old talk with?
It's a case of repeating what you hear... I guess you pick up an accent and a dialect as a kid really... that's why your accent can change if you move region when you're young but not so much as you get older..
If mockney gangster is how all the kids are speaking at school then that is how you will speak too..
s'all about da pickneys dem innit..
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this has been going on for years. nearly all, white teenage subcultures are white kids emulating black ones.
i suggest you read some hebdige.
I don't know who or what 'hebdige' is, but there was a great quote in Glee along these lines the other week:
"She's black. I'm gay. We MAKE culture".
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dick hebdige pretty much an authority on subculture. and a very interesting read. subculture or resistance through rituals would be a good place to start (the second being perhaps more relevant to this thread).
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Language spreads by osmosis. It moves from a less dense to a more dense medium.
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I thought that they did it because they wanted to sound ridiculous.
It's hilarious to hear da yoot dem here in Devon trying to sound young, black and disillusioned but occasionally drifting back into pirate
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All you southerners should know that at some point in the past your ancestors switched from short to long vowels. {Grarse not grass} This radiated out from London, but became fully established only in the south.
Not all of us mate. "Grarse" in a Bristolian accent would be interesting indeed.Posted 1 year ago #
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