every three months we start The Daniel Kaluuya Conversation where someone asks where he is and everyone says he’s in a cult and then someone says he’s not anymore and then we do it all over again
that’s why when i hear the ava hirons and zac’s of london speak i acc scratch my head bc when i now listen to your siblings and parents, they sound NOTHING like you and you now want to come fix ur lip to say that’s how you normally sound #hmmmm
that’s why when i hear the ava hirons and zac’s of london speak i acc scratch my head bc when i now listen to your siblings and parents, they sound NOTHING like you and you now want to come fix ur lip to say that’s how you normally sound #hmmmm
Southeast London perfectly encapsulates this, you’ll hear black people speak BBE and white people have a cockney twang whole time they grew up on the same street. Accents are racialised 😭😭😭
No, accents are indeed racialised. Black British English was created and popularised by Black British people and anyone taking part in it outside of Blackness are indeed seeking proximity to coolness. I know many non-Black people from endz without Blaccents.
Reaching the part of “teens can’t read!” panic where everyone pretends gauche is a casual commonly used word that average high schoolers should all know