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Language and Ethnicity Wider Reading (The real roots of multicultural…
Language and Ethnicity Wider Reading
The real roots of multicultural London English
More than 100 languages spoken in each borough - very multi-lingual
David Starkey linked Jafaican and MLE to violence in the riots - obviously racist and criticised
Attitudes to language are difficult to change and run deep, subconsciously
Estuary English
Compared to MLE
MLE speakers don't drop /h/
Vowel sounds less fronted in MLE
MLE
'man' used in a similar way to German, meaning 'I' or a general 'you'
Quotative: 'this is me... this is them'
Not all Jamaican
'my ends'
'Blud', 'bare', 'mandem' all Jamaican
Some vowels from Cockney e.g. the vowel in 'food'
Caribbean immigrants the first to Britain post-war
Perhaps therefore this accent is associated with black people
'Jafaican' is wiping out inner-city English accents
Jafaican 'infiltrating'
Immediately compared to Ali G
Diminishes the status of MLE, it is merely a comic gag
Also compared to Ali G at very end of article, with a similar effect of lacking status
Rather bigoted ideas that 'white youths pick up the speech patterns of their black and asian classmates'
This is true, however the article presents this as a negative thing, rather than an example of multi-ethnic diversity, which it would be regarded as by many
Why are so many middle-class children speaking in Jamaican patois?
Also compared to Ali G, as a comic gag, nothing to be taken seriously
'clumsy', 'bizarre', 'misused', 'worryingly'