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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2011 13:41:36 GMT
"MLE" has been much discussed in recent days due to current events, but the best article I found about it is already 5 years old. I must confess, though, that I would not have been able to guess the meaning of the majority of these words. Not getting props in the hood? Then read on, bludI have realised in recent years that I am losing comprehension of Multicultural Paris French as it evolves. I was able to decode everything in the past by asking my friend the high school principal what certain words meant, but now that he is off to Brazil for 3 years, I am losing the language.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 12, 2011 17:15:59 GMT
It's going on all over the place...here in Leicester we have a very diverse population. The latest groups to move here are Eastern European and Somali..No matter where they come from the young people invariably end up talking with a sort of West Indian-like accent..including the Leicester born ones! I spose they want to be different from their parents...like having a secret language. We all did it as teenagers didn't we? to a certain extent...I remember (with a certain amount of embarrassment) saying words like 'Cosmic' and 'groovy'..... ;D in a sort of 'Cheech and Chong' drawl... My sons (now in their 30s) used to call things 'Wicked' or 'Cool'....however the current generation seem to have developed a whole new language that most people over 30 have no way of understanding. Maybe that's as a direct result of the melding of so many different cutures?....
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 19, 2011 5:53:48 GMT
That's what slang/argot has always been for. What worries me is the youngsters who don't quite get the need to adjust to the rest of the world.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 19, 2011 8:43:00 GMT
My thoughts exactly...Here in the UK the 'adapation to real life' phase doesn't seem to be happening and the 'I want to be a pop star/famous/me first and always/the world owes me a living' attitude that many people go through in their teens (to a certain extent...and I'm generalising wildly here) carries on into adulthood.
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