Robin Hood's Merry Men 21 May 2013 at 5:41PM in Over 50s MoneySaving 12 replies 1.9K views

Eliza_2

My granddaughter's description of the above to one of her friends:

"He has some like peeps who he hangs round with x"

Hohum

margaretclare

Eliza wrote: »

My granddaughter's description of the above to one of her friends:

"He has some like peeps who he hangs round with x"

Hohum

Translation please?

This sounds to be based on US gangster ghetto-speak. Maybe considered 'cool', but it's not standard English.

Eliza_2

'Course it isn't standard English. It's a 10 year old speaking to another 10 year old on Facebook! They speak a different language to us when speaking together!

SailorSam

Eliza ask your grand daughter 'what is Robin Hoods favourite radio programme ?
The Archers.

Eliza_2

Haha! I'll try but do you really think a 10 year old will have heard of The Archers?!!!:D

SailorSam

I thought that but it was the only Robin Hood joke i knew, well except of another rude one.

Eliza_2

Knowing how precocious 10 year olds are these days, she'd probably understand that one better! (but please don't!)

She told me yesterday in graphic detail, all about the sex ed lesson they'd just had. Apparently it was all "gross".

yangptangkipperbang

http://scatty.com/jokes/fairy_tale/robin_hood_jokes.html

Eliza_2

Brilliant!! Thank you.

margaretclare

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

http://scatty.com/jokes/fairy_tale/robin_hood_jokes.html

I love the jokes. But in normal conversation, you sometimes hear teenagers talking in TV programmes and they seem to want to squeeze the word 'like' into a sentence as often as possible.

I feel like saying ' Say all that again, but without using "like" '.

Can't imagine what my English mistress at grammar school would think if she could hear it now.

Eliza_2

Yes they do. But (whoops, don't start a sentence with but) I remember having our own language when I was a teenager back in the olden days too, nothing changes. I'm sure my English teacher back then threw her hands up in horror at us too.

Plus ça change - and language evolves all the time anyway, thank goodness.

The funny thing is that she used the word 'peeps' which I'm sure was something Harry Enfield came up with back in the 80s was it? Way before she was born.