London school bans 'urban' slang words - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Zeke129;42553582]To me those don't even seem like slang terms, just regular words with an accent[/QUOTE] Not really, because "bare" in this sense means "lots of" or "really". I dont even know how it came about. Its like the phrase "allow it", like "allow dat, fam", which is like saying "nah fuck that", which seems backwards....

[QUOTE=Harry3;42555241]Its like the phrase "allow it", like "allow dat, fam", which is like saying "nah fuck that", which seems backwards....[/QUOTE] what?

All british people I know finish their sentences with 'yeah'.

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;42555258]what?[/QUOTE] Basically, our slang makes no sense whatsoever.

I wish they weren't allowed to use 'ain't' at my school.

[video=youtube;mGp4DvFEgh8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGp4DvFEgh8[/video] Relevant.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;42551956]"Man I really like this song" "That's it Johnson, you're expelled!"[/QUOTE] Johnson should be banned too. Because slang word. Or is that American only thing?

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;42555258]what?[/QUOTE] saying "allow it", means "I dont agree with it"

[QUOTE=Durrsly;42552005]"Like", "Bare", and "Extra" are slang?[/QUOTE] "Bare" means "a lot of" or "very" rather than bare skin or something. As in someone who's rich would be said to have bare money, or that they are bare rich. I'm not sure about "extra" though, I don't think that ones made it's way down to the southern coast yet

[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;42556468]"Bare" means "a lot of" or "very" rather than bare skin or something. As in someone who's rich would be said to have bare money, or that they are bare rich. I'm not sure about "extra" though, I don't think that ones made it's way down to the southern coast yet[/QUOTE] Extra means over excessive in slang terms. So if you got a very harsh punishment you could say "Why are you being so extra for?"

this is kinda old now but somewhat relevant [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBelz8BgX0[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzjD_7bRYmk[/media] i aint bovvered

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;42552587]Can we ban the use of "anti-clockwise" instead. It's counter clockwise dammit.[/QUOTE] In American English, it's counterclockwise, in normal English, it's anticlockwise. I could go on for hours about English Language differences between countries, but I'm not going to because it's a pointless and needless argument.

[QUOTE=Coffee;42556746]In American English, it's counterclockwise, in normal English, it's anticlockwise. I could go on for hours about English Language differences between countries, but I'm not going to because it's a pointless and needless argument.[/QUOTE] I like counter-clockwise a bit more Anti-clockwise sounds too dramatic

[QUOTE=gudman;42555485]Johnson should be banned too. Because slang word. Or is that American only thing?[/QUOTE] Johnson is a generic name in English. Unless you're talking about Dick Johnson, aka. the penis.

damn bruv thats cold innit

[QUOTE=ECrownofFire;42551970]A school bans stupid shit for no good reason, what a surprise![/QUOTE] It's a school - it should impart a certain style of language. Banning language that doesn't conform to that style is completely normal and expected. Similarly how a lot of international schools I know ban languages other than the one the school follows during breaks and similar. (A german school only allowing german, a french one only french etc)

So they want us to keep our language in stasis instead of evolving like our language has since its creation? Slang is just word corruption, technically most words are therefore slang.

Dialect isn't wrong, it's part of the community. I mean, you can't expect all of your students to speak perfect RP, can you? You might have one or two 'posh' students but they'd speak modified RP at most, which is just RP mixed up with dialect.