Seeing as the British language as a whole has a lot to owe to French and old German/Dutch (right down to the words used in it). I don't see why British terms and slang should be restricted to the UK. Makes fairly little sense, really. And how much slang white British kids use is of Jamaican origin? How do you think Jamaicans feel about that?
Language is CONSTANTLY changing, it evolves as much as living organisms do. It mostly does so by cross-polination. Would it sound weird to hear some Apalachian yokel use British slang? Sure. We're not used to seeing that. But that doesn't mean there's something inherently wrong with it. The only difference with that and hearing them use their 'own' language is that we've gotten used to them using their 'own language' and haven't gotten used to them not doing so.
And what about people to kids who aren't native English speakers? Aren't they allowed to use localised slang?
I sometimes try to use older slang we used to say at school which isn't used so much any more. Words like tick and dread. So if a girls bare tick and you're bare dread for giving me a dead arm you bozza! Usually gets a laugh.
LOL, my 14 year old brother told me to jam my hype the other day. Pure laughter/cringe.
MPathy wrote:I sometimes try to use older slang we used to say at school which isn't used so much any more. Words like tick and dread. So if a girls bare tick and you're bare dread for giving me a dead arm you bozza! Usually gets a laugh.
LOL, my 14 year old brother told me to jam my hype the other day. Pure laughter/cringe.
What is jam your hype supposed to mean?
I remember in my school there was a craze of calling people a 'wooler' like...wool-er. I to this day do not know what it meant...but I remembered it the other day and it made me chuckle. Might try and bring it back.
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MPathy wrote:I sometimes try to use older slang we used to say at school which isn't used so much any more. Words like tick and dread. So if a girls bare tick and you're bare dread for giving me a dead arm you bozza! Usually gets a laugh.
LOL, my 14 year old brother told me to jam my hype the other day. Pure laughter/cringe.
What is jam your hype supposed to mean?
I remember in my school there was a craze of calling people a 'wooler' like...wool-er. I to this day do not know what it meant...but I remembered it the other day and it made me chuckle. Might try and bring it back.
I suppose to not get rude although I didn't ask for a definition.
MPathy wrote:I sometimes try to use older slang we used to say at school which isn't used so much any more. Words like tick and dread. So if a girls bare tick and you're bare dread for giving me a dead arm you bozza! Usually gets a laugh.
LOL, my 14 year old brother told me to jam my hype the other day. Pure laughter/cringe.
No one in america uses any of those words....maybe "mate" on a forum like this, but yeah im from NYC/Brooklyn and I can surely tell you that you walk up to someone and use the word "innit" they will think you have a mental problem, and most likely walk away from you.
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Wagsi wrote:No one in america uses any of those words....maybe "mate" on a forum like this, but yeah im from NYC/Brooklyn and I can surely tell you that you walk up to someone and use the word "innit" they will think you have a mental problem, and most likely walk away from you.
instead you use " yo dawg" which is equally retarded.
maybe his magical jew carpenter compelled him to speak out
Badman Juice wrote:
yeah but there's a lot of london slang which isn't from america.
this....a lot of the words people are mentioning here arent even really slang, they are standard words possibly said in a cockney/ essex accent.... the kind of stuff you hear across london estates nowdays is proper obscure & nothing but london
yea but thats the shit americans say...
they dont go on bout 'choong gash' or 'nang' or any of that shit
your right theres loads of london slang wich aint from america but a lot of the stuff n. americans' would be sayin kind of is