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Date: 01 October 2009 20:40:21
Two rather chubby cute teenage or early-twenties black girls.
A: I'm going to Sweden next week.
B: Will you bring me back a Viking?
A: Bring one back? Have you seen J? He's so blonde and cute! The perfect Swede.
B: What, D's boyfriend? But he's, like, Gollum!
A: No. She's given up going out with Gollums.
B: But I thought he was like, her boyfriend boyfriend, like they lived together. Her husband or something.
The whole with a rather odd intonation that is maybe getting more common in London (not that I have any real measured basis for thinking that). Seems mostly restricted to under thirties, to be slightly more common among black than white, and much more common for women and girls than for men and boys.
I think what'd going on is that unstressed final syllables are being given a fuller value, rather than being reduced to a schwa. So to someone who wasn't brought up to it, like me, it sounds as if the final syllables of some words are being stressed (though probably they aren't really). So "Sweden" sounded to me as if she was saying "sweeDAN". And girls calling to each other in the street seem to be saying things like "AngeliCAH!" "DominiCAH!"
As far as I remember I never heard "boyfriend boyfriend" before.