When they start talking like rejected extras for Top Boy...

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...how do you react? Laugh and hope it passes? Ignore? Imitate? Advice please as it's driving me mad, fam, innit.

Reminds me of an interview I happened to see of Junior Andre and wondering to myself why he was speaking like that.

Roadman Pingu always gives me a chuckle. ‘I’m P2 Trappy wot u sayin’

You've sent me down a roadman rabbit hole there!😁

Dd says wagwan sometimes. She isn't Jamaican. Does it mean " what's going on?"
It's the music culture innit?

Slay!

I think it’s always been the case- it’s just more pronounced and universal ( less regionally specific) because kids have more exposure to it via social media etc. I am old and deffo had “youth speak”.

i remember “cas(ual)” meaning cool and “horny”
meant good looking rather than up for it- no scope for misunderstanding at all there 🤣. Also “well” meaning “very”.

when we went on school rwsidnetials and met schools from other places they had different lingo. It was like we were these scattered Anglo Saxon tribes 🤣🤣

Preach

Just suck your teeth

You win

🤣🤣🤣

I have found my people!

My ds (now 23) speaks just like this-its bloody annoying

Was amusing (but not at the time-i was bloody fuming) when he rang me one day and I got 'hey up n*gga'

Then silence-he KNEW he'd gone too far and there is not a chance I'd put up with being spoken to in a racist way

(in no way,shape or form did I allow any racism to slip by when I was bringing him up)

Then I heard (almost in a whisper) 'you ok mum?'

After tearing him a new one,we got on with why he'd rang (£50 most likely)

I'm forever getting 'sick','peng','innit' and 'preach'

I'm going to find out his most hated song and rap it down the phone at him

I laugh and occasionally imitate. When DS called me 'bro' I pointed out that I'm not his 'bro' I'm his DM and that he sounds idiotic speaking like that (MC white boy at private school 😂)

Tell them they can talk however they want with their friends, but in your house they speak the King's English or they can whistle for an answer.

I correct mine. And tell them they sound a bit like they don't know how to speak properly. Makes me CRINGE 😬

Obvs.

It's much more among the boys than the girls though IME, DD will use some of the words but sparingly and not in an exaggerated accent. She does a reasonable pisstake though!

I also enjoy saying "Oh look, it's the Feds" whenever we pass a police car.

Run them p’s?

as an aside I Bloomin love Top Boy

Demand to check under their tongue for drugs every single time.

I lived in London for a while in my 20s and picked up the accent. It wasn't until I watched Top Boy and tried to explain how to do it to someone else that I realised a big part of it is trying to keep the very back of your tongue still, and keep the words towards the back of your throat

They don’t sound like very smart youts when they talk like that either 😂

My husband and I, who are both old enough to know better and are not remotely 'G', always refer to the police as the po-po, the feds, or five-oh.

He works on the staff of a large police force. Tru dat.

I know this is a lighthearted thread but it makes me genuinely sad that this pathetic road man culture is something to aspire to

Dd is also often 'aware' and telling me my concerns are ' not that deep tho'.

Personally I've found that watching Top Boy (which is brilliant) has ruined the word 'food' for me.

It's like the pants hanging down under their butt cheeks thing - not so cool when you realise it was to advertise who was up for a bit of bum fun in prison!

I don't know what 'top boy' is, but what's funnier than white boys with little bags, is private school boys doing the same language.

' Bruh'

If my son starts referring to roadmen, I refer to roadies. And if he says. Goat I say greatest of all time.

I just laugh at it, a lot.