I did not know how different that slang is in east london until I did read it from paper, they say that money walls are going to use also that slang in east London soon.

But do people actually use such different language there? Are they mostly local older people or is it some modern fashion?

Our west coast has lot of people which are perfectly impossible to understand as they speak finnish and swedish mixed, young people use that too, but also there is one finnish dialect that is almost impossible to understand, that is dialect of Rauma this is quite fastly fading dialect as only elders speak it in original form, young ones don't use it because of nobody else would understand them but locals, so it would be bit of disadvantage in todays world.

Of course up north there is bit new words to learn and some meanings of words, I have learned that 'itikka' means mosquite, but up north it means a cow, so saying I squashed a 'itikka' would mean up north that I squashed a cow.

I don't know if it is any similar with east london slang, where they talk about boat race when they mean face, at least that is what this paper tells me about, but these local papers can be bit wrong, they claimed once that mobile phone sends GPS data to satellite

Bangers and mash machines, yeah.
Theyre trialing them for 6 months or some similar.

theyre having a girraffe!

volvosneverdie wrote:Bangers and mash machines, yeah.
Theyre trialing them for 6 months or some similar.

theyre having a girraffe!

LOL, I have no idea what that means, certainly giraffe is hard to fit inside those machines

Bangers and mash = cash
Giraffe = Laugh.

Honestly J, you just havnt got a Scooby have you.


*Scooby-Doo= Clue.

Yeah it's normal (well... debatable) Cockney rhyming slang. So... Giraffe would be Laugh.

There's also the tendency to have a two-part rhyme and then omit the latter word. For example,
"You're having a laugh" --> "You're having a Jimmy Giraffe" --> "Your 'avin a Jimmy"

So... in the end nobody will understand it unless they know exactly where the original rhyme came from.

im not sure about east london but i have a good freind in south london (im west london) and he speaks with laods of slang, ive got used to it now but at first he confused me all the time

nomead wrote:Yeah it's normal (well... debatable) Cockney rhyming slang. So... Giraffe would be Laugh.

There's also the tendency to have a two-part rhyme and then omit the latter word. For example,
"You're having a laugh" --> "You're having a Jimmy Giraffe" --> "Your 'avin a Jimmy"

So... in the end nobody will understand it unless they know exactly where the original rhyme came from.

Indeed.

Septic Tank = Yank (American)
TCP (a brand of antiseptic) = Someone who doent like americans. Anti-Septic.

Doesnt work unless you know the origonal Rhyme.

Ehhh!?

I think speaking Enigma would be easier for me to understand

It is indeed amusing how there can be so different methods of communicating inside a single nation, so it is no big surprise that globally in Europe alone there are millions of persons which are completely unable to communicate with all.

jtbo wrote:Ehhh!?

I think speaking Enigma would be easier for me to understand

It is indeed amusing how there can be so different methods of communicating inside a single nation, so it is no big surprise that globally in Europe alone there are millions of persons which are completely unable to communicate with all.

Yeah, we can make up an entire new language based on phoenetic rhyme,
but we cant be bothered to learn French.

Cockney is nothing compared to North... they speak really really weird up there

I speak a small amount of slang, my father is from the East End, but as anyone who's had a conversation with me knows thats only part of my (what I've been told is random) talking

Chris_C wrote:Cockney is nothing compared to North... they speak really really weird up there

I speak a small amount of slang, my father is from the East End, but as anyone who's had a conversation with me knows thats only part of my (what I've been told is random) talking

hoo yee sayin taaaks funny like?

Just had a "butchers" at this ere thread, yeah i saw that on the Custard and Jelly, it was in the linen draper aswell, made me have a bubble.

To be a true Cockney you have to (apparently) be born within ear shot of Bow Bells (the bells of St. Mary-Le-Bow Church) which they reckon is a 5-6mile radius or so. Most Cockneys are just Mockneys though, i.e fake Cockneys.

Chris_C wrote:Cockney is nothing compared to North... they speak really really weird up there

I speak a small amount of slang, my father is from the East End, but as anyone who's had a conversation with me knows thats only part of my (what I've been told is random) talking

So you have as little idea what they are saying as I have?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT08xFj836I

I kind of enjoy from all those different styles to speak, even I have no idea most of time what is being talked about

I've been trying to find videos of Liverpool and Newcastle, but aside from standard Harry Enfield fodder, theres nothing that isn't hugely offensive that I could find, and Sven and VND would chase me out of the forum

This is not offensive...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFKOKBtLsM

very much at least that is