It was probably a year ago, i was at the local skatepark (actually skateboarding and not just loitering-) And some young guys, probably about 16-18 turn up. They start harrassing the grunge-emo type people you usually get at the parks, but one of them climbed onto a ramp i was standing on, turned to me, stuck out his fist and said "safe bruv?"
for a few seconds i had this expression -->on my face. Eventually it registered in my brain that he believed i was "acceptable" so i clumsily muttered "er, yeah, safe."
We already have a language i don't see why they have to go make up their own.
Guys in my 6th form used a lot of chav dialect too, words like hench, safe, bare, "wedge" (Particularly large), "chief" (apparently means "to steal" i.e. Why you be chiefing ma fone?")
The one i hated the most was "allow", eventually everyone started using it, even normal people. If you say "allow that" it means "forget doing that". Doesn't even make sense
Haha yes!
pretty much all of that is exactly what i was thinking as i read this post.
but with the 'allow' bit, round where i live it's sort of turned into just 'llow' (pronounced like allow, but with out the a)
and, although 'cheif' is also used as a word for steal, it's also become another cuss word "oh, him? yeah, that boy is a chief"
but i find that alough i dont really talk like that (and as pretty much everyone else in this topic has said).
i do find it starting to rub off.
99 percent of the time now, instead of saying something like cool, or wicked, or ace or something like that. i'll just end up saying 'siicck'
it started off as a bit of a joke between me and all of my friends, but we wore that joke out pretty hard and now it's kind of left me saying things like that. aha.
John.
