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    Best slang ever. Im going to start talking like a working class Londener
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

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    Scouse is much better.

    And it is named after food, not a part of the body.

    Anyway, what is wrong with Texan?
    Last edited by The_Doctor; 12-28-2006 at 18:23.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South
    Best slang ever. Im going to start talking like a working class Londener

    Did ya' just see Green Street Hooligans or something? (great movie btw I even went out and bought it)

    (wether that was cockney in the movie or not I do not know, but the brits sound classy when they cuss compared to us yanks...it's the only thing they have better then us)
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    Default Re: Cockney: The Language of The Gods

    Sadly there is not a soul in the world who actually speaks it really anymore. Blame immigration, internal movements and American tv for that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BDC
    Sadly there is not a soul in the world who actually speaks it really anymore. Blame immigration, internal movements and American tv for that...
    Isn't estuary ("es-jurry") the culprit?

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    Default Re: Cockney: The Language of The Gods

    No it was on Beerfest
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BDC
    Sadly there is not a soul in the world who actually speaks it really anymore. Blame immigration, internal movements and American tv for that...
    The occasional phrase still manages to pop in there when I speak...then I shudder...



    @SFTS- for your consideration- (the movie Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels is full of the stuff)

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    Tomorrow, Im gonna get up, have a cup of Rosie
    wouldn't you prefer a giggle ?

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    Default Re: Cockney: The Language of The Gods

    The only cockney I remember is: bristols = titties. I learned it from my English teacher in High school.

    Cockney, completly incomprehensible when your not a local. The best language there is.
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    A dead language you say? Wasn't the Bible recently "translated" into Cockney?


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    Default Re: Cockney: The Language of The Gods

    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South
    No it was on Beerfest
    Warning-if this was an American film, what you heard most likely didn't even resemble Cockney. NB-Mary Poppins.
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    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as lancelot said will give you some good/funny Cockney.

    Quote Originally Posted by lancelot
    Tomorrow, Im gonna get up, have a cup of Rosie, go out and get my barnet sorted and then go see me ol china
    Tea, hair and a mate. Sounds like bloomin' fun an' frolics.
    Last edited by naut; 12-30-2006 at 12:25.
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    Most people from southeast England sound Cockneyish to us northerners, and I've even mistaken Aussies for Cockneys. Awful accent
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    Quote Originally Posted by Red Peasant
    Awful accent
    Aye, you got that right.

    Yorkshire, now there's a dialect.
    Last edited by naut; 12-30-2006 at 12:58.
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    But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra

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    Did someone call?
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    Did someone call?
    I thought you where from Manchester?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Doctor
    I thought you where from Manchester?
    Only when it suits him ... one of the benefits of dual nationality
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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South
    Best slang ever. Im going to start talking like a working class Londener
    Given that most working class londoners seem to want to sound American you probably already do...

    Or, for the Londoners amongst us: Would you adam and eve it, the saucepans all saand like bleeding shermans naa.

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