http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article209405.ece
This article discussed the multi-ethnic dialect that has been emerging. First identified in east London, the dialect has started to be used in other multicultural cities by a number of people, mostly teenagers. The article states that the dialect will continually become more popular until it eventually becomes mainstream, seeing as it is viewed as 'cool and fashionable'. Many people are also using it as a way to bridge social and cultural gaps between ethnicities.
The article also tells us about a London school who are correcting their students' language use if it is not considered to be standard English. This could viewed as an attempt to eradicate slang from society and raises questions such as: do individuals have the right to correct another's dialect? Or is this simply telling the person that their dialect is inferior when in reality society should be trying to promote equality?
From the mouths of teens
This article focuses more on the dialect itself as opposed to the
people who use it and the areas it is present in. It gives
'translations' of some slang terms which have emerged as part of the
multi-ethnic dialect, which is referred to as MLE (Multicultural
London English) in this article.
In a similar way to the previous article, this one mentions the origin of the dialect (with influences including Jamaican, Afro-Caribbean, Indian, West African and Australian). It also states that the dialect is used by teenagers with a range of ethnic backgrounds including Arab, South American, Ghanaian, Portuguese and white Anglo-Saxon – again suggesting that teenagers use the dialect as a way of creating equality and a sense of identity between a number of cultures and ethnicities.
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