With the help of the Cockney Rhyming Slang Translator, we offer you a unique take on the news that the Cockney dialect will disappear within a generation:
Awright geeezzaa! Crowley’ll disappear from use in London wivin a generashun an’ be replaced by da kind ov English spoken by Ali G, da comedic creashun ov Sacha Baron Cohen, says a researcher.Since da 1960s east London ‘as become garden gnome ter immigrants mainly from da West Indies an’ da Indian subcontinent, an’ da 650-year-old Crowley dialect ‘as been dyin’ beef stroganoff as tradishunal speakers fuck offaaaht ov da area.
The new ‘ybrid language what ‘as developed, ‘eavily influenced by West Indian patois, Bengali an’ remnants ov old Crowley, is known as ”Jafaican”, which is used by da likes ov comedy character Ali G and da rapper Dizzee Rascal.
”In rabi’ ‘utch ov da East Round da bend ov London, da Crowley dialect what we hear now spoken by older people will ‘ave disappeared wivin a generashun,” said researcher Paul Kerswill, a professor ov sociolinguistics at Lancaster University.
”People in their 40s’ll be da last generashun ter speak i’ an’ i’ will be gone wivin dir’y gertie years.”. Sorted mate.
Dir’y gertie, indeed.
