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White people speaking like black people
Bandola
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I overheard a few words from some guy in tesco today. He sounded exactly like Ali G or any of the black guys that Ross Kemp interviewed in south london gangs. But this guy was 100% white! What's that all about? He sounded like he was from the west indies or the mixed up london version of it. That's the second time in two weeks I've heard someone speak like this. It just seems ridiculous and completely laughable. If he was speaking to me, I would most likely say to him "why on earth are you talking like that?". It would be like me putting on an indian accent or speaking like a chinese man and changing my 'r's to 'l's.
We all pick up a few phrases but something like this is losing your whole identity and taking on someone elses.
I should imagine that black people laugh at these white people copying them, and rightly so.
We all pick up a few phrases but something like this is losing your whole identity and taking on someone elses.
I should imagine that black people laugh at these white people copying them, and rightly so.
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Ali G or Don Warrington?
I know there's nothing really wrong with talking 'ghetto', it's just one of those things that gets on my wick.
Both. However, I'm talking about white people that are directly mimicking what we generally know to be the west indian sound or what is close to that.
I have it on good authority that they talk like Jim Davidson doing 'Chalky White'.
How do white people talk?
Nuff respeck, one, peace!
like that ^ i mean this <
Yeah exactly. I think the word some is missing from the OP.
So they should. It's rather pathetic:o
Yeah, that's it. Gangsta.
Black people most certainly do NOT talk the same, neither do white people.
I had known someone all of two hours before they decided to inform me I talk like a white person. When I asked what that was supposed to mean, she said because I used proper sentences and pronounced my t's and didn't say 'innit'
It annoys me to no end that some people seem to think all black people use slang, talk like they're from the 'ghetto' and don't know how to form proper sentences.
:eek:Oh my word! I guess that means I talk 'white' too then?
What a bizarre thing to think, it sounds like something from decades ago.
Jason
I don't know why but it just didn't look right. But if your around that culture you're bound to pick it up.
Most of the black people I know speak with a Scottish accent :eek:
The title of your thread reads, "White people speaking like black people."
That's what I was commenting on.
You also said:
Well DUH, that's what the topic is about.
Well DUH that's what people are reacting to. Not ALL black people talk the same.
Well DUH, once you've read the second sentence of the thread which goes " I overheard a few words from some guy in tesco today. He sounded exactly like Ali G or any of the black guys that Ross Kemp interviewed in south london gangs." it all becomes clear or should do if people actually read it.