Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Slangsta Rap?

I know this is old news to you old lags who've been doing A2 English Language here, but I thought I'd try to show you what I hoped this blog could be like.

Here's a link to a Guardian article called Slangsta Rap which looks at the slang used by young peeps (ha ha) in south London. What do you think about the way in which this article is reported, the ways in which the slang is defined or even the whole issue of what slang means to different groups of people?

Useful for:
ENA5 Language Varieties and Language Change
ENA6 Language Debates



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