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London rioter accents

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  • 13-08-2012 9:43pm
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    Sappa
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    Watching a program on the London riots and the culprits who were involved in it.
    What sticks out is this dizzy rascal/n-dubz style accent they all have.
    Any time I have been to London I never here this accent,is it put on to act hard or gangsta or do these people actually talk like this.
    It's like your one Jessie J as well horrible accents but where did it originate as it's slang text talk.


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    saiint
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    most black people in london talk that way BRUV

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    not a racist i'm just very honest


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    TeddyTedson
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    An urban south London accent


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    Latchy
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    The London gang culture develops it's own accent and slang which doesn't always use conventional grammar to communicate ...so to speak


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    Tombi!
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    Usually blacks sound the same in London if it's working class.
    Then whites have the chav accent that's basically the skanger accent.


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    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    It's sarf London mutilcultural, innit. An accent which will guarantee you will never become a doctor.


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    Michael Weston
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Michael Weston


    Sappa wrote: »
    Watching a program on the London riots and the culprits who were involved in it.
    What sticks out is this dizzy rascal/n-dubz style accent they all have.
    Any time I have been to London I never here this accent,is it put on to act hard or gangsta or do these people actually talk like this.
    It's like your one Jessie J as well horrible accents but where did it originate as it's slang text talk.

    Aiiiiiight, we was just hangin bro !! We didn't burn down no buildings yo, why you always gots to be coming up here blaming us and makin us talk like gimps.

    Kinda like that ?


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    Omackeral
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    They wanna sound like the Yardies. 2nd and 3rd generation immigrant gangsters from the Carribbean. They were in the old Grand Theft Auto games ha.
    I'd imagine a lot of them put it on.


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    Guy:Incognito
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    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    It's sarf London mutilcultural, innit. An accent which will guarantee you will never become a doctor.

    Well, that and rioting instead of studying.


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Two gang leaders who orchestrated looting ( one believe it or not from his bail hostel ) were sent down for a few years the other day and police are still determined to catch others yet to be identified from CCTV footage .


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    Nodin
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    Latchy wrote: »
    Two gang leaders who orchestrated looting ( one believe it or not from his bail hostel ) ......

    Knowing when to delegate and when to get "hands on" is part and parcel of good management.


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Nodin wrote: »
    Knowing when to delegate and when to get "hands on" is part and parcel of good management.

    Yeah...let some '' other muthafcuker do yoh sheet for yo man '' .


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    MadsL
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrvHfBO0mKo


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    WumBuster
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    I think they get looked after pretty well in the UK considering many of them have no intention of ever working. They should go back to their own countries if they're that unhappy. And im not talking about the ones who are honest and contribute to society, but the ones going around acting all cool & gansta, causing trouble and smashing things up for the sake of it. And if you dare to criticize them, you get the race card thrown at you.


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    MadsL
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    WumBuster wrote: »
    They should go back to their own countries if they're that unhappy.

    *facepalm*


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    Tool_
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    Sappa wrote: »
    Watching a program on the London riots and the culprits who were involved in it.
    What sticks out is this dizzy rascal/n-dubz style accent they all have.
    Any time I have been to London I never here this accent,is it put on to act hard or gangsta or do these people actually talk like this.
    It's like your one Jessie J as well horrible accents but where did it originate as it's slang text talk.

    The interviews in that program were recreated by actors and were a bit hammed-up as a result. Nevertheless the kid-on patois of sections of young Londoners does sound awful - you'd not come across it on a wreck round Londo unless you went looking for it (which you wouldn't as its sh1te).


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    Nodin
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    WumBuster wrote: »
    I think they get looked after pretty well in the UK considering many of them have no intention of ever working. They should go back to their own countries if they're that unhappy. ..........

    Aye. Send the fuckers on the first plane back to Peckham.


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    Teyla Emmagan
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    MadsL wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrvHfBO0mKo

    Understood about 5% of that. It's a very irritating noise they're making anyway.

    Ye get me?


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    tayto lover
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    Putting on a fake accent is a little like the riots and those who took part, pointless and brainless.


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    Piriz
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    lets discredit working class people coz they have accents eh?

    like the skanger accent... we're better then them... lets brand people as skangers coz they have certain accents...

    its fine to hate the actions of rioters and its fine to hate their accents but to judge a person because they have a (working class) accent is disgusting..

    people who have to grow up on tough streets tend not to give a **** about pro·nun·ci·a·tion...

    this is typical Irish snobbery, an RTE accent is what many Irish people aspire to have and plenty contrive theirs more so than the London rioters init!


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    dd972
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    Most genuine English Londoners were shipped out to new towns in Essex and Kent in the 1960's, you'd have to go to Harlow or Chatham to hear the sort of accent heard in Eastenders.


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    Tombi!
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    WumBuster wrote: »
    I think they get looked after pretty well in the UK considering many of them have no intention of ever working. They should go back to their own countries if they're that unhappy. And im not talking about the ones who are honest and contribute to society, but the ones going around acting all cool & gansta, causing trouble and smashing things up for the sake of it. And if you dare to criticize them, you get the race card thrown at you.

    England IS their own fúcking country.


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    dd972
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    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    England IS their own fúcking country.

    Bernard Manning '' A dog born in a stable doesn't make it a Horse '' :pac:


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    Tombi!
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    dd972 wrote: »
    Bernard Manning '' A dog born in a stable doesn't make it a Horse '' :pac:

    Well what if they're third generation?


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    Pottler
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    Funny accent? It's cos they are knobs and put it on. I used to slag the Gangsta lads about their "pimp walks", ie putting on a limp to look "cool". I used to ask them straight out if they were born that way or had they had an accident. Usually, they didn't like being asked that and did a lot of teeth sucking noises and "cool" comebacks. Really though, it's cos they are knobs.


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    southsiderosie
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    dd972 wrote: »
    Bernard Manning '' A dog born in a stable doesn't make it a Horse '' :pac:

    By that logic, Kipling isn't British.


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    Pottler
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    southsiderosie wrote: »
    By that logic, Kipling isn't British.
    He makes fackin gud pies thaugh bruv.


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    Chuck Stone
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    southsiderosie wrote: »
    By that logic, Kipling isn't British.

    And neither are a good chunk of the British gold medallists.


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    V_Moth
    Registered Users Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭V_Moth


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    And neither are a good chunk of the British gold medallists.

    ..nor their aristocracy.


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    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    And neither are a good chunk of the British gold medallists.
    But has they attitude bruv? Dat be the real ting. Knobs. I know, I grew up with them. I had white mates that sounded like they just stepped off a jet from the Carribean despite their parents speaking perfectly normally. Massive, massive knobbery.


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    dd972
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    the Bernard Manning quote was a joke btw

    these types of things are elastic, Mo Farah for example is a British-Somalian but not an Englishman of course.

    Ronan O'Gara, Shane MacGowan and James Larkin were born outside the island but are Irish through and through and conversely we share the island with a million plus people who don't regards themselves as Irish having been here 400+ plus.


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