Question, and not a clue where to put it

[annadomino]

Watching Pick TV (again) cos I am not sleepy.
Some police programme.
White lad talking like a New York gangster, can anyone explain? Why isn't English good enough?

[Maydup]

LOL - you just addicted to that prog!

[daisya]

Because that's what they do now, same as I notice more youngsters talk with an oh how do I say it, Caribbean accent? Perhaps because they mix more with other cultures than their own or it's the done thing to be cool? Phases they go through no doubt.

[Nibble]

Seems to be the normal gangsta-speak for the hood nah. It's so you can be cool with the little boys you hang out with....

They think it sounds hard & give's them credibility, (not!)

[askyourgran]

Monkey see monkey do nowadays anna.

[annadomino]

Shhhh Maidup ;)

[annadomino]

Such an apt answer AYG

[Teddy_boy]

Is this another race related post from anno?Change the record please.

[Zhukov]

Nasty thoughts,and implications by annadomino again..really tiresome..

[Teddy_boy]

Im starting to see a pattern.

[missprim]

innit?

[Teddy_boy]

Is it cos they is black?

[trt]

If they could look at the video clips in 10/15 years time, they will realize what idiots they look and speak like.

Da ya know what am saying Brother :-)

[Teddy_boy]

I belive its bruv.
You int dahn wiv the kids trt init.

[annadomino]

Fool, it wasn't race related, it was language related, and monkey see/do was the white lad speaking that way, or is that racist too.

[EvianBaby]

There were two lads standing behind me in a shop yesterday who were speaking like that. I had such a strong urge to ask if they realised how stupid they sounded.

I bet they don't sound like that when they speak to their Granny.

[rowanwitch]

Its just what is seen as fashionable at the time.... they grow out of it... its the low slung trousers that are really daft

[daffy654]

My 33 year old nephew still talks like it, so does one of my nieces (also in her 30s). It is embarrassing to say the least!

[andy-hughes]

It is youth culture - based on the street gangs the nurture rappers and gang culture.

Part of being an adolescent is find subconciously that your personality is random and unformed, and you have no confidence in who you are. To compensate, you externalise with your dress, speech patterns and cultural identity which simultaniously binds you to your peer group and alienates you from wider society.

It sounds rather quaint to our adult ears, but like the low-sling trousers, it's harmless, and we should avoid the tutting our parents did over our hair 'n' flairs combos from our own 'difficult' years.

[annadomino]

Oh yes, the trousers are something else, as are the shoe laces left undone. I just don't get it.

[andy-hughes]

annadomino - fair point, but did you or your friends ever sit in the bath with your shrink-to-fit Levis on? Parents were baffled by that - which of course a massive bonus!