Would you be put off? Man uses a lot of slang

[Fedupofwindyweather]

It's not a dialect thing, I know people can't help the way they speak. It's a man who's in his 30s but uses a lot of slang like 'innit' as if he's a 17 year old boy.
Or 'alright lad what's happening ', stuff like that.
Not sure if I'm being overly judgemental?

Man's a dickhead. I'm a bloke but I'd run a mile.

Is he speaking like that naturally, or is he doing it for effect, in order to appear cool? If it's the latter, then he's a twat.

Yep this😉

Oh, I’d be put off by this so much.

Everyone can, or should be, able to adapt their language to a situation.

If he wants to speak like that when out with friends fair enough, but personally I would expect more respect, especially in the early days of dating.

If you are going to be embarrassed by him laying it on so thick then don't waste your time on him. It is the kind of thing that would grate on me over time.

I speak like that because of where I'm from. Everyone speaks like that round here. If he's putting it on that would give me the ick tho!

This was so quick and so succinct it actually made me lol

He's been watching Top Boy innit fam

Say less

🤮 no from me

I got put off someone when talking to them on WhatsApp and they put "der" instead of there and "da" instead of the 🤦‍♀️

I would avoid conversation with this person. It would drive me insane. I don't know anyone in real life that speaks like that.
Vicky Pollard maybe

Those phrases would be normal in the town I grew up in, depends where you are from.

This thread is mental to me, everybody talks like that where I'm from. Is this classism or something?

If someone's using slang they don't use naturally because they're trying to portray themselves a certain way and it's obvious it's not who they are I can see why that would cringe you out but otherwise I'm not getting it.

If this is how you feel he's probably better off without you.

Not someone I want to meet.

This thread is why many of my colleagues have imposter syndrome at work as they feel like they are judged by their accent / the way they talk. Because they are. People wouldn’t talk to someone who uses phrases like the one described or vomiting emoji’s? It’s horrible how snobby some people are. You can’t help where you came from, nor should you be embarrassed or ashamed.

Wouldn't bother me. My best friend speaks like that and he's lovely. People see him and think big chav but he's just a nice guy who speaks how he speaks 😂. He's always been like it. When he sees my nan who's always got a cardi on, he goes alright sylv cold today ain't it and squeezes her!

People don't all speak the King's English! 'Alright mon' is a term of address here and it is totally normal. Personally I dislike glottal stops but it's regional and none of my business how someone speaks

It wouldn't bother me too much, where we are from there's many different accents and different towns can say words very differently. It probably is slang but everyone including medics, police, and councillors even our MP speak similarly which other places would probably think was put on.

You've posted about this before haven't you. I remember reading the exact same thing a few weeks ago

Some words off the top of my head most people use here from all walks of life -

"Awrite"
"Ah ken"
"Do you ken what I mean"
"It's Baltic"
"Hons" instead of hands.
"Teen" instead of tin.
"Wean/bairn"
"Crappit"
"Gaz"
"Aye/now"
"How"

We shouldn't judge people on words they use in normal conversations unless hurtful. If you don't like it you don't need to see him again but he's not as abnormal as you'd think.

Completely agree, I'd totally bin someone off for saying der and da.

Wouldn't bother me.

I’m a Cockney. I love slang

Bin him off ASAP.

The OP isn't talking about regional dialects and local words, she's talking about downright appalling English from someone who should know better.