This article focuses on the common dialect that British teens use in everyday life, so in other words, slang. At the beginning of this text, the journalist reflects on the language that they had overheard two teenagers using with each other on a public bus. This conversation included words like, "safe, "blud" and wasteman", among others. To help their self and their audience to understand this script, they had enlisted the help of 13-year-old Gus, who clearly explained that these confusing words actually had very simple meanings. For example, "safe just means hi", and "your yard is like your home, where you're from". The fact that Gus could decode this dialect as if it were a second language, is because to the teens of his generation, it is. This proves that in this day and age, slang is becoming a rapidly popular tool that young people use to communicate with, whilst creating an entire new form communication, even though it is part of the same language.
This article also diverges into the concept of Multicultural London English (MLE), which is the best way that Language expert from London University's Queen Mary College, Sue Fox, could describe the dialect that teens from multicultural backgrounds are using. Her research shows that some of the slang words that we use on a daily basis, would normally be associated with that of a Jamaican or African person, so therefore "people are beginning to sound the same, regardless of their colour or ethnic background". Professor Paul Kerswill of Lancaster University believes that MLE is an adapted form of the way teenagers speak, saying that, "It's a real dialect rather than simply a mode of speech". He also comments on how he can can predict that "it'll be more mainstream through force of numbers and continued migration, and because it's considered cool". This shows that the majority of adolescents that use this form of dialect, only use it to be seen as cool and current, which makes them feel more involved and relevant within society.
Kerswill goes on further to briefly explain how the music and fashion industry has contributed to the national spread of MLE.
