JerseyCaptain wrote:
Conay_Wolfing_Balti wrote:
Well... Even if English is made from other language's. I was talking 'bout more in the days of Shakespear, when they used language the average "Teenage Gangsta" would never understand.
Well now...
a. that's not even remotely close to "original" English (or, more accurately, the proto-English language)
b. I don't think they cared much in the Renaissance about whether or not "teenage gangstas" of the future would need to understand their vernacular...especially since today's "teenage gangstas" don't have much of a vernacular at all...and barely an intelligible speech pattern anyway. Maybe "teenage gangstas" need to focus more on actually learning how to speak in complete, intelligible and rational sentences, instead of trying to "represent, yo".

"yer mean lyk dis mate - dis is gangsta talk init blud - yer need to get a chick mayte, or yer wud beh named a pufta"
Translation: "You mean like this mate, this is a gangsta talk isn't it. And yes, you need to get yourself a girlfriend, or you would be called a puff."
Thats what I have to listen to 24/7, consider yourself lucky.
But that type of so called "English" is more from the... -Not making comment-, taking over our country. However I prefer Regular English, compaired to Gangsta, queeen, or just shakespear.