Brits here in Taiwan, do you speak MLE (aka Urban British English or UBE)

Language English Grammar & Usage
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Interesting video

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He just goes around reviewing chicken shops in the London area and gets millions and millions of reviews. If you want to learn urban british English, its a great source

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I speak rural English.

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Isn’t that just urban English spoken at half speed?

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This even started to appear in Dublin, especially black minority but not only. Bruv.

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I left the UK in 2015 and I recognize most of the words on that Wikipedia page, but wouldn’t necessarily use them.

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Urban English ‘init’

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So what is the nickname for this version? Crush English

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cuzzi, man b creasin, man go in da makkies, arsek the bossman bare fries bruv nd it was long, u get me, nd I dun jacked tha wideboi nd his wify’s corsa from the car park

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Not even ‘geezer’?

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Crush some apples make some cider.
The more you drinks the more you farts. :grinning:

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No sir, urban English is rural English spoken at double speed. :rofl:

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Its hard to keep up with, too many new words pop up and a lot of them are dumb, such as ‘beat’ a girl means having sex. Stupid. Just leave it to london people.

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That kind of follows on from others. Pound a girl. Smashed a girl.

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Charming stuff.

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Shift? I guess that is closer to ‘pulling’ a girl.

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Harvest a sow

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Do educated people talk like that too?

Or is it like Ebonics in the US where it’s mostly uneducated black people?

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I think if you put those on both sides of an equation they will equal each other

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