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is it?
coz this is funny
personally, ive seen the some of the LLEAST likely people using street slang in the dubstep scene.
Like you hear some posh people chattin bout nang, and rahh lol. Its terrible. Some of em dont even know how to use the words and they still try say em anyway.
Are they tryna get some street cred or suttin, or are they influenced by grime? do many dubsteppers listen to grime MCs aswell?

Better call the slang police and let em know.

thats what happens when you blow up a tiny scene on radio 1

& what u talkin about man about leaking in where u think this music comes from???

man dem wan know why street slang creep inna dubstep scene... mans been chattin bare yardie for time ya gets meh?
dub - music of jamican origin,
grime - "urban" music using london slang derived from yardie slang...
of course its gonna get used.... the slang has taken over...

geordies now say "safe" and shout "brrrrrrap" at raves for fucks sake... thats how much the terminologies have spread!!!! i suppose it was just a matter of time...

anyway its well early bredrins and i'm bare shatterred ya gets meh, this is long

brapizzle, i'm off to my crib to lay my choong yat doon on the bed and give her a good seeing to...

peace bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuddddddddd

blap blap blap brrrrrap...

you guys have the best slang

what does brap mean

Parson wrote:what does brap mean

It's to do with John Dee and Edward Kelly's system of Enochian ritual magic.

According to the Wikipedia entry Brap is "A minor angel, skilled at locating precious metals."

Pesonally I am dismayed that "street" slang is borrowing from 16th century occult traditions. Who do they think they are? Are they just doing it to try and gain some dark powers? Some of them don't even know how to perform a basic banishing ritual.

Blam!

Language is fluid; it penetrates and conquers. Colloquialisms enrich language and historically words have always been expropriated by different class / geographic groups. I’m not sure what your issue is. Transatlanticism and the black cultural diaspora has resulted in a linguistic exchange which has been especially evident within London for decades, with music subculture being a key proponent of this nexus.

boomnoise wrote:Language is fluid; it penetrates and conquers. Colloquialisms enrich language and historically words have always been expropriated by different class / geographic groups. I’m not sure what your issue is. Transatlanticism and the black cultural diaspora has resulted in a linguistic exchange which has been especially evident within London for decades, with music subculture being a key proponent of this nexus.

brrrap! // hear hear!

EXACTLY

So, within the current socio-linguistic climate, is it at all appropriate to describe one's favourite dubstep tune as "simply spiffing"

if you roll that way you can describe it as anything you want





stupid thread

man is up on slang but i aint got a danny what you lot are on abaht, sociolinguistic climate, colloquialism, transatlanticism

a wah de ras a man tark bout . ono no sey dem tink man a man is a eediat but me cyant really cater for dem kinda foolishness. ya see me?
tark ow ya tark and stey out a me blodklart buisness ya ear.

What Poax said.

Must admit I've had to check Urban Dictionary a few times to understand various terminology. I remember an episode of South Park where Chef was explaining how as black slang was gradually assimilated by white culture, black culture gradually changed the words so as to keep it their own. Seems to be some truth in that.

Had a friend from a fairly posh family who started dropping "innit" into every sentence, which with his still posh mockney accent made him sound somewhat of a prick. He was 28 at the time which was even more worrying.

Think the problem is that with a gradually growing middle-class listening to loads of music made by the urban poor (I think "underclass" is a pretty repulsive term to be honest), and the embarrassment of actually being brought up fairly priveliged (oh, the shame...), that dropping particular phrases somehow keeps them that little bit more street (or road or whatever the fuck it's called now). I think if you actually run with people that use the slang, its cool, but if not you do run the risk of sounding a bit of a twat.

Same thing's been happening with cockney throughout the south for years. Brighton, with it's well-to-do, predominantly middle-class population seems to be way too fond of affecting London slang when they've blatantly never lived there. When they do meet up with folks who use the language as natives, they often seem a bit worried. Always fascinating to notice how people's accents change depending on circumstances, like the difference in their voices in chatting to mates or their parents.

Seems funny to me as up until 20-30 years ago, a lot of working class folk were trying to sound more middle class to give themselves better prospects in life. Funny how things change. innit

aint got no issue alright boomnoise.

Shonky wrote:I think if you actually run with people that use the slang, its cool, but if not you do run the risk of sounding a bit of a twat.

yeh that was kinda my observation, its like people who have no connection with anyone who uses slang are usin it.
Its alright if you know what it means coz then its like a language 2 u. but when u have look it up on the internet den it jus becomes like.................................... yehhhh rite

stay shower !!

showafication yasimeh! blap blap!

personally i've been wanting to fuse jeeves and wooster type slang and london slang for a while now...

<i>what ho, brer! bally good merkage! it's not a bad-minded ting is it old chap?</i>

language is silly and fun and interesting, and you should enjoy its myriad possibilities rather than take its usage too seriously.

basically thers two types of people in this world

English people...
...and people who want and try to be English

nuff sed