Yoot' Gangsters!!

[portseven]

Watching a telly prog about youth gangs, something is bugging me. Why the **** do they all talk with fake Jamaican accents?!?! Is there some correlation between Jamacian accents and gangs.

My teenage years were spent in East London in the late 80's and there certainly was an element of talking Jamaican style to be cool, but it seems to have got worse.

They were interviewing gangs from bloody Nottingham and they all were talking like wannabe Yardies. What's funny is that I bet as soon as they sit round the dinner table with their parents they don't talk like that.

[NickFitz]

Back in the Eighties I was at a mate's flat and a young Afro-Caribbean friend of his was talking away in patois. After he left my mate said "He never used to talk like that you know. We were at school together, and he talked perfectly normally until he was about seventeen."

[xoggoth]

Maybe it's contagious. I can never speak to an Australian without immediately speaking like one.

[OwlHoot]

Watching a telly prog about youth gangs, something is bugging me. Why the **** do they all talk with fake Jamaican accents?!?! Is there some correlation between Jamacian accents and gangs.

It's a rebel thing - Anything to be different from their parents (even if they sound identical to each other).

If their parents started talking like Yardies, the kids would all probably start sounding like something out of Tom Brown's schooldays.

[Moscow Mule]

* sucks teeth *

[Spacecadet]

Back in the Eighties I was at a mate's flat and a young Afro-Caribbean friend of his was talking away in patois.

Luckily everyone has now got decking instead


I'll get me coat

[Spacecadet]

Maybe it's contagious. I can never speak to an Australian without immediately speaking like one.

That's what psychologists call acceptance behaviour mirroring (or something like that)
Basically you make yourself sound similar to them to make them like you

[NickFitz]

That's what psychologists call acceptance behaviour mirroring (or something like that)
Basically you make yourself sound similar to them to make them like you

Initially there was only one psychologist who used that term. The consequences were inevitable

[Gonzo]

That's what psychologists call acceptance behaviour mirroring (or something like that)
Basically you make yourself sound similar to them to make them like you

I am not convinced that this works though. I think I do it but I remember having a chat with an American chap when we were both waiting at Dover for a cross-channel ferry and he thought that I was mocking him.

Initially there was only one psychologist who used that term. The consequences were inevitable

[mudskipper]

Maybe it's contagious. I can never speak to an Australian without immediately speaking like one.

I read all the error messages on clientCo's system (in my head) in an Indian accent. Only my Indian accent is pretty rubbish, so they sound a bit Welsh.