Definition of multicultural london english in English Turkish dictionary
- MLE
- (Askeri) deniz kolluk kuvveti (maritime law enforcement)
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Definition of multicultural london english in English English dictionary
- An English accent peculiar to modern day London, being a mixture of Cockney, Jamaican, West African, and Indian accents and dialects. Also known as MLE
- MLE
In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.
- Jafaican
In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.