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    Nangin' Slang

    12 Nov 07
    Nat Illumine takes up the story on how Nanging` slang got to be so popular with young people in East London

    A revolution in street-based language is taking place in East London - with Cockney rhyming slang having to compete with a number of new Asian-based youth-languages like Benglish and Hinglish.

    The latest to hit the East End of London is `nanging slang`. Nat Illumine takes up the story for ANR on how Nanging` slang got to be so popular with young people, writers like Gautam Malkani and filmmakers like Menhaj Huda.

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      Nige, Croydon
      How Nangin' slang got to be so popular with young people?Easy - it's really childish. Anyone can make up new slang or use words differently, and most children do. But only a tiny fraction of the new spiel makes it into common usage because it's hard to improve on the English language, and most of the efforts are shallow (as well as childish.)

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