“Ali: What is the vibe with drugs in Ireland? It might be stereotyping or whatever man
but I is heard that the Irish is always up for the crack.
Sue: No, no. Crack in Ireland means having a good time .
Ali: A’ight, for real but crack is a bad drug there is a high but also a low.”
(you can check out the video by clicking here)
When I decided to use an Ali G quote as an epigraph to my ‘Introduction to sociolinguistics’ (this article is a contribution to a new ENS-based website called ‘La clé des langues‘ (‘The gate to languages’), which aims at providing high school teachers with new and innovative material – ), I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into. (more…)
