what does "innit" mean?

[Bob]

the topic posted earlier today reminded me, but it's something i've been wondering for a while. it seems like it's supposed to be slang for "isn't it?" but it gets used in totally inapporpriate places. like i was watching this show, and they said something like "we should get off the train now, innit?" and "isn't it" just doesn't fit there at all, so i'm stumped

i'm too american, help me out

[Lindsey_1535]

your smart, I like that

[kleptomaniac]

i need my redneck-to-english dictionary....but i'm pretty sure it means "isn't it"

[Bob]

i need my redneck-to-english dictionary....but i'm pretty sure it means "isn't it"

so do you like, not read posts, or what

[cookiepuss]

yo yo yo urban dictionary to the rescue (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=innit)

[fucktopgirl]

i'm too american, help me out


i am too french,help me out too :confused:

[kleptomaniac]

so do you like, not read posts, or what

yeah i'm agreeing with you stupid.



it might not make sense, but so what??? they're weird people.

[kleptomaniac]

yo yo yo urban dictionary to the rescue (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=innit)

cool (y)

[jabumbo]

i think i made a thread of this exact same question ages ago...


but i don't remember the answer...

[Freebasser]

It means "isn't it".

It's used at the ends of sentences by certain people with certain accents and chavs.

It's just an ending to a sentence, like the way some people (such as myself)say "so" i.e. "I'm just going to the shops so".

[Bob]

yo yo yo urban dictionary to the rescue (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=innit)

oh, ok, now i get it. silly me. i was trying to treat it as a combination of actual words, innit

[kleptomaniac]

can't go around it.....can't go over it......gotta go "innit" :cool:

[fucktopgirl]

ha,, :p

[CrankItUp!]

innit = In It To Win It !

By my observational definition. (y)

[Bob]

yeah i'm agreeing with you stupid.



it might not make sense, but so what??? they're weird people.

oh

in that case yes, i am stupid

innit

[kleptomaniac]

innit = In It To Win It !


:D (y) (y)


very nice

[Freebasser]

If you aren't from Southern England then you shouldn't be saying "innit" anyway, because it'll make you look like a complete twat.

[fucktopgirl]

If you aren't from Southern England then you shouldn't be saying "innit" anyway, because it'll make you look like a complete twat.


not with klepto meaning to it! (y)

[Bob]

If you aren't from Southern England then you shouldn't be saying "innit" anyway, because it'll make you look like a complete twat.

no i know, i'm just using it in this thread to demonstrate my newfound understanding of it.......innit

[Freebasser]

I hit the missus whenever she says it.

Hard.

[kleptomaniac]

Bob seems to be "innit" but not all there....

[synch]

If you aren't from Southern England then you shouldn't be saying "innit" anyway, because it'll make you look like a complete twat.
It makes pretty much anyone look like a complete twat... innnnnnn....sssssn't that so?

[discopants]

its a bit like Glaswegians say "By the way" a lot.
"I'm off down the pub, by the way"
"What,is it a fucking secret?

I hate chavs and scallies so fucking much.

[voltanapricot]

I say it all the time which is funny because Coventry (a little south of Birmingham (http://www.liv.ac.uk/images/maps/uk_map.gif)) isn't the most southern of places. I don't post saying "innit" obviously.

What show was it that you were watching Bob?

[boys_beastie]

i need my redneck-to-english dictionary....but i'm pretty sure it means "isn't it"

what the fuck are you on about 'redneck'?

it means isn't it.

[ericlee]

Innit is Yaunto's little brother.

[Bob]

what the fuck are you on about 'redneck'?

it means isn't it.


no she's right now that i think about it, rednecks say it too. "that there's sum kinda electric light there innit"

i was thinking more about when british people say it. or just the southerners apparently

i think i heard it on the kumars, it was a sketch about chavs or something. i mostly didn't get it actually, but it seems like it should be funny to people who do.

[Nuzzolese]

I love this kind of stuff. Region specific speech. It keeps things interesting.

[mickill]

It's like when black people say, "no diggity", Bob.

[Nuzzolese]

My dance teacher always says "natch" at the end of sentences, I think it's short for "naturally" and she often calls me "Joe." It's not like she doesn't know my name. She'll just say, "just hang on a sec, Joe. I screwed up the music...natch."


But while we're on the subject of innit. What's Naff and Ponce? Are all ponces nonces?

[mickill]

Naff is like when black people go, "Dat shit is played da fuk out" and a ponce is like a wanksta.

[Freebasser]

But while we're on the subject of innit. What's Naff and Ponce? Are all ponces nonces?

Naff = rubbish (but nobody says naff any more, because it's naff).
Ponce = posh person with low intellect and who hasn't worked a day in their life.

[voltanapricot]

Naff is like an acronym for "not available for fucking" but you say it when talking about anything that is rubbish, generally.

Ponce? Hehe. I called someone a ponce once when I was little and my mum scorned me telling me the meaning was someone who lives off the earnings of a prostitute/pimp. I'm not sure about that one though.

Edit:Thanks Freeb.

[mickill]

Holy wtf, Aid and Clo, I already said all that.

[ChrisLove]

My dance teacher always says "natch" at the end of sentences, I think it's short for "naturally" and she often calls me "Joe." It's not like she doesn't know my name. She'll just say, "just hang on a sec, Joe. I screwed up the music...natch."


But while we're on the subject of innit. What's Naff and Ponce? Are all ponces nonces?


Ponces are not nonces - very important distinction

Naff = crap / rubbish / Passé

Ponce = homosexual

Nonce = pedophile

Hence Phil Collins Child Abuse awareness campaign: Nonce-Sense

[Freebasser]

Holy wtf, Aid and Clo, I already said all that.

Eh? What the fuck yer talkin' about, ya soft fuckin' twat?

[voltanapricot]

Holy wtf, Aid and Clo, I already said all that.
Aye up Aidy some geez from Canada beat us Brits to it, let's all call him a bint and stuff crumpets up in his nose then flush his head down the loo! Quite quite, pip pip, yah yah!

[voltanapricot]

Nonce = pedophile
Eez a right ole ponce, this one. (http://mitch.oaklog.com/img/Gary.jpg)

[Freebasser]

Aye up Aidy some geez from Canada beat us Brits to it, let's all call him a bint and stuff crumpets up in his nose then flush his head down the loo! Quite quite, pip pip, yah yah!

Nay - let's ring 'im up and tell 'im how soddin' 'angin' he actually is. That aught'fot teach the bender how fot' talk reet.

[voltanapricot]

Ooooooh I am so moving up north for uni.

It'd be a reet larf, like!

[mickill]

You two are a splaff pickley pumpernickle gimbilly gomble fish n chips snip snobbity fookin oi oi oi natter pit tatters. Wow, it's so easy to talk like you Brits. Top o the morning to yers tally ho! Ariba!

[Freebasser]

Oop Norf > Dahn Sahf

[Freebasser]

You two are a splaff pickley pumpernickle gimbilly gomble fish n chips snip snobbity fookin oi oi oi natter pit tatters. Wow, it's so easy to talk like you Brits. Top o the morning to yers tally ho! Ariba!

Are you an ex-pat? You speak like a native.

[voltanapricot]

Top o the morning to yers
Irish. You're like, propah like naff at this English speaking malarkey.

[mickill]

Bloody fookin 'ell. Oi. Was I a wee bit oi cheerio about the oi "Ariba!" bit too yeah, oi, holla?

[Freebasser]

Aye bumbaclat, whi shiznay thizzle the wizzle dizzle on the rizzle, innit?

[Nuzzolese]

mickill you sound like any old geezer down the rubbadub,

[mickill]

Rasclat, bumboclot, faceclot, tableclot...tally ho, matey! Oi Nuzz, oi yer wee bugger oi, wanker/wanksta. These tossers and kippers are getting their knickers knackered oi! Jolly bad oi!

[Freebasser]

fromage

[alexandra]

all these words...........

[Kid Presentable]

Beercan and eggs. Easy now.

[fucktopgirl]

fromage
en crotte!

[Nuzzolese]

Rasclat, bumboclot, faceclot, tableclot...tally ho, matey! Oi Nuzz, oi yer wee bugger oi, wanker/wanksta. These tossers and kippers are getting their knickers knackered oi! Jolly bad oi!

ocelot?

Bally jerry dickie birded, flipped over on his benny harpers, pranged his kite right in the how's your father...

[Freebasser]

Bally tenpenny ones dropping in the custard?

[Nuzzolese]

cabbage crates coming over the briny?

[Freebasser]

I don't understand your banter.

[mickill]

'ey ya 're Bale of Hay, yeah, oi?!

[Nuzzolese]

Oi love, ow bout a bit of the other. Yer a bit of alright then.

[mickill]

I eckon hat's ow hey alk, eah oi?

[hpdrifter]

Hey, since we're on the subject, you guys know that6 scene in goldmember when Austin is talking to Nigel and they don't want the american girls to understand. What did they say in that scene?

[Nuzzolese]

Something about the bird who lived right up the apples and pears. Easy peasy, lemon squeezie.

[Bob]

During the time I spent in Tennessee I had the pleasure of hearing such audio treats as "Yu'ens", "Fixin'ta", and "Aint'it". Though my stay was relatively brief, I never heard the expression "innit". It is from this experience that I believe that a "redneck" would say something more like this "that thar's sum kinna electic light thar aint'it?" The closest that expression that I heard to a version of "isn't it" was "Idin'it". Yu'ens have fun, I'ma fixin'ta go up yonder apiece.

you know what, you're right, i was thinking of "idin'it". there is a d.

i'm not very good at my redneck spelling

what's a prat?

[Freebasser]

A pratt (two ts, Bob - make notes) is someone who is, for want of a finer word, a dumb fuck.

[P of R]

Amazing how this thread coul get so many replies.



Well here's another one.

[voltanapricot]

Hey, since we're on the subject, you guys know that6 scene in goldmember when Austin is talking to Nigel and they don't want the american girls to understand. What did they say in that scene?
They're talking in cockney rhyming slang laave, it's all in subtitles innit though. That's 'ow all me faily spoke when I lived fuvvah dahn saaf until ah was rahnd about six years old, I grew up wiv the daisy roots and all that lot din't I!

[Freebasser]

'Owd up. No sod's bin postin' in 'ere for a while. Seems it's 'bout time someone gev it a kick up th'arse f'ot gerrit movin' again, innit.

[Lex Diamonds]

Nah blad I'll spark im trus. Likal pussyole cotchin on my ends tryina shot to mah brares goin to get rinsed yukno.

[Planetary]

seen

lol!

[voltanapricot]

'Owd up. No sod's bin postin' in 'ere for a while. Seems it's 'bout time someone gev it a kick up th'arse f'ot gerrit movin' again, innit.
Alreet love, ah say alreet love? Ahm in Sheffield, alreet? As ah say, I doon't mahnd the pie.

p.s. I love being in a land where heterosexual builders will call other blokes "love."

[voltanapricot]

tosser.
Nothing to do with Cockney rhyming slang.

[Planetary]

Alreet love, ah say alreet love? Ahm in Sheffield, alreet? As ah say, I doon't mahnd the pie.

p.s. I love being in a land where heterosexual builders will call other blokes "love."

i was working with some stokey builders who called eachother duck and love.

it was scary. you forgot to't. and the other 'the' abbreviations.

[voltanapricot]

Oh, shit planetary love, Ah were too busy putting t'oven on, as Ah say love, Ah were too busy to realise.

That and I've not been here long in Northern England area innit.

[mickill]

Shiver me timbers!

[Planetary]

Oh, shit planetary love, Ah were too busy putting t'oven on, as Ah say love, Ah were too busy to realise.

That and I've not been here long in Northern England area innit.

oh aye. i wouldn't say im northern really, but a mate of mine moved from sheffield :D

[Caribou]

Fucking 'ell, I've only just discovered this thread innit!

Now gi'us sum mo' words ya bunch of plonkers.

[Bob]

i was literally about to come in and ask "what's a plonker?" even before you posted it caribou.

in fact i might have already asked earler in the thread. did i? did anyone answer?

[b i o n i c]

i love it when british people say "whilst"

what is the proper usage for this? does it just mean "while"?

[Caribou]

i love it when british people say "whilst"

what is the proper usage for this? does it just mean "while"?

Yeah, it's just more posh.

Just like pènis is posh for knob.

[Helvete]

God damn you all, this thread is why I despise English people.

[Caribou]

Aww, we despise you too dearie.

[Helvete]

Ugh, please, stop speaking. It's killing me.

[Freebasser]

i love it when british people say "whilst"

what is the proper usage for this? does it just mean "while"?

Different words for different parts of the sentence...

"While Jon collected seashells, his mother shagged the lifeguard"

and

"Jon collected seashells whilst his mother shagged the lifeguard".

[Caribou]

I don't care about the blummin' grammar, tell me where that lifeguard is!

[Freebasser]

He's shagging your mother, Jon.

[Caribou]

Hey, you used the past tense. You mean they're still at it?

[Freebasser]

Please enter your PIN number to access Naughty Lifeguards.

[Caribou]

6969

Now what?!

[Planetary]

God damn you all, this thread is why I despise English people.

why don't you suck my english dick, shitface.

[Nivvie]

Alreet love, ah say alreet love? Ahm in Sheffield, alreet? As ah say, I doon't mahnd the pie.

p.s. I love being in a land where heterosexual builders will call other blokes "love."


So a few years back we moved to Halifax and the husband was most surprised at being called love by other men, but I too think it's loverly.

Then we moved to Nottingham where men call each other 'duck' and 'duckie'.

Here people start and end most sentences with 'maybe', on top of having their own Doric language, and there is no love or softness in their words.:(

[b i o n i c]

Different words for different parts of the sentence...

"While Jon collected seashells, his mother shagged the lifeguard"

and

"Jon collected seashells whilst his mother shagged the lifeguard".



AHA!!!! i learned something whilst just passing the time.