Professor Crystal says: "As soon as it gets picked up by adults, they drop it; that's what happens. And that is why it is so ephemeral."Even the kids are sometimes bewildered. These days it's not quite 20 or 30 minutes, but it's not much longer."This is all very bad news for grown-ups - as part of the point of youth slang is to exclude parents, teachers and police. You might get a large group of immigrants in Brick Lane all speaking their own language and their own form of English.
And that language might be ignored, but it might also be considered cool. These slangs, especially Caribbean slang, are being picked up."The second reason is the internet." In the 1960s, says Green, "slang took 20 or 30 years to cross the Atlantic. Nearly a third of the world's population speaks [it], so there are new varieties of English growing up all over the place Once we just had British and American English Then Australian English. Now there are fewer than 20.Mr Allingham is the only one who can speak as an airman, soldier and sailor, for he served in all three of the armed forces, surviving the battles of Jutland and Passchendaele.He remembers the fear of night-sailing across seas spiked with landmines "In the day you could spot them, but not in the dark.
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"Being taken to court for it seems a rather over-the-top response."But Mr Prescott, who was not at home at the time of the protest - but whom Greenpeace would like to summon to give evidence nevertheless - is clearly furious. "My wife was on her own in the house and there were 30 of them on the roof What the Greenpeace people did was deplorable It was 5am. It was very frightening for my wife and that really does annoy me. She felt it was infringement," he told one newspaper.In a surreal twist, the trial, at Hull magistrates court, is expected to focus on how polite the eight Greenpeace activists were and whether they intimidated two armed protection officers guarding the home.The trial is the culmination of a conflict between the Government and environmentalists over renewable energy The protesters' banner read: "Oi Two Jags, Hit Targets.