Young Urban Englishmen and Women

[Fyrgenholt]

Professor Green

Apparently this accent (and faux-culture) is the fastest spreading amongst English inner city youths. Some sort of hybrid 'Anglo'-Jamaican black urban 'culture' thing is what I see and hear. But is it really growing so rapidly? If so, what is to happen to the English language? We all know language shifts and changes over the course of time, but is this the direction in which English is going? How would a counter on such a language shift be organised (ie, educational and so forth)? Would it even be possible to counter the course of change in regards to linguistic evolution, would it even be desirable?

It actually suprised me, though, to see so many Europids in such a video...

[Northern Paladin]

he sounds like a Kenyan American I once knew

[Witta]

Yeah it is widespread innit. I always say "Are you black?" to them.

[Fyrgenholt]

Yeah it is widespread innit. I always say "Are you black?" to them.

Yeah. It's unusual to some degree in that, unlike most dialects and accents, it isn't so much regionalised. You get people talking like that from Newcastle, to Manchester, to Birmingham, to London. It is, though, a primarily urban thing. Of course, the urban is the most heavily populated and the most rapidly growing of environments. You hear, now, accents that kind of blend a typical regional dialect, with some strange sort of west/south Indian 'thing' and some sort black 'culture' accent - I don't know they call it, but apparently it's growing fast.

[Ediruc]

In America we call them "wiggers." I'm not sure what you guys in Great Britain dub them, but they are far worse than non-Whites apart of the same sub-culture. To be honest, wiggers are poked fun at a lot. I bet their black friends make fun of them behind their backs all the time. They are just very degenerate Whites and should be removed from the gene pool.

[hyidi]

Not only the Blacks have invaded,but there culture/Slag has taken over!
The English language is being transformed to English....and it is not helping when white germanic people mimic Negro's..shame!

[flâneur]

In America we call them "wiggers." I'm not sure what you guys in Great Britain dub them,

Wankers.

[Caledonian]

I see you guys suffer over there from wiggers too.

[Wittmann]

Ahh the wiggers... Terrible disease really, and the CDC has yet to recognize it yet. Be warned my friend, you can catch wiggers to if you're not careful!

THE WIGGERS!

[BritishLad]

Wankers.

Couldn't have said it better myself

I'm not sure which cities you're referring to. I'm an inner-city youth (well York is a city-a only live 1/2 a mile from the centre) and I've never once seen anybody like this.