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Cheeky nandos (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unsolicited peer review time...

browsing in JD Sports (sports shop)

*trainer shop, let's be realistic

from the "curry club" menu

The Thursday specials, to be specific.

called Callum

*Calum

Brethren (an old fashioned way of referring to a friend you consider a brother)

This comes from Jamaican Patois, it's not just a memetic imitation of Early Modern English.

No further notes.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cheers bruv.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Im not your bruv, fam

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I ain't your fam, blud.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I ain't no blud, mandem

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, now you're just writing random strings of letters...

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mandem's basically in American English as well, we just say it a little different. It's a shortening of man and them, as in your boys. As Vince Staples says "know a change gone come like Obama 'n them say, but they're shooting every day round my mama 'n them way".

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I need to re-read this when I wake up tomorrow, after coffee.

Right now my brain just shut off in the middle of the quote.

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Here's the song, to go with the coffee tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8