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Gibberish

Is it me, or is it gibberish, the way kids speak today

I just dont seem to understand a single word they say

They've mugged the English language, everything has changed

The future of the spoken word will never be the same

 

I took my teenage lads aside and to them I did quip

Hey dudes whats the word, what makes you guys all hip

Silently they stared at me, with pity in their eyes

Nobody hip, Dad, anymore, now we all is fly

 

Da'Bomb is great an Sick is good

And so's you aint no fool

We say Phat, way and spun

To tell em dey is cool

When we's hangin round de hood

The fave thing dat we's do

Is kick it out wiv all our tights

Away from rents like you

 

It is just another language that Ill never understand

Postal, Dorky, Thumpin Beats, its getting out of hand

But

Next time I'm walking down the street

And approached by lads in hoods

Who shout to me 'oy mate, youre fat'

I'll say  Yo!, Da'Bomb young bloods

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John Coopey

Thu 15th Apr 2010 00:12

You is like well top-bombing wiv dis.

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Fri 26th Mar 2010 12:39

Of course, I get the humour. But what's the latest on literary types trying to make 'street talk', 'black dialect' etc. a separate, critical language choice for writing and teaching? Anybody up to speed?

<Deleted User> (6315)

Thu 25th Mar 2010 21:39

oh another language indeed..goes with the territory of being an old git!

Fun read!

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