Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging

My parents snog occasionally.
Even at their age.

  
Cringey.

  
Seeing old people over the age of snogging is just horrific.

  
Of all of the boys I've ever snogged,
Sven is definitely the best.

  
'Cause he's emotional.

  
Where have you got to
on the snogging scale?

  
What?

  
Jas and I invented a snogging scale.
The Ten Stages of Snogging.

  
- You're mad.
- No. It's scientific.

  
- How would you know anything about it?
- Please.

  
- Who got 82% in Bio?
- True.

  
We cut out all the letters about kissing

  
from the problem pages
of every girls' magazine.

  
So, it starts with level one,
holding hands.

  
Two, arms around waist.
Three, good night kiss.

  
Four, kiss lasting over three minutes
without breath.

  
- Five, open mouth kissing.
- Number six, tongues.

  
Oh, my God.

  
Seven, upper body fondling outdoors.

  
Eight... Oh, my God.

  
I've gone all jelloid.

  
- Who are those fitties?
- They're well beyond fit, they're lush.

  
They are sex gods.

The piece of text that I chose to analyse was a script from Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging. I chose this script and piece of writing mainly because I love the typical teenage language used. From looking at the text, you can notice that a different sociolect is used throughout as they're all friends together, not only is the topic of conversation once which you would only have with your friends, but the language as well. For example, "Who are those fitties?" "They are sex gods." Also, by looking at the language you can guess what age and exactly what these girls are like, because although to an older generation some of these words used would be quite low frequency lexis, however, to a typical young teen friendship group, quite a lot of these words would be used on a regular basis. An example of this is, "cringey", which is a very high frequency lexis word used among teenagers. However, although by reading this you get the idea of what kind of age group and who they are, the sociolect is very exaggerated and they have taken words used by teenagers and then played on them to make an even bigger effect. An example of this is the phrase "I've gone all jelloid.". Another thing which is also noticeable in the text is the idiolect. From certain phrases that they use and say, you can see that these girls are quite common and aren't particularly upper class in any way. You can notice this from the way they say, "Oh, my God." and even common words such as, "beyond fit" and "lush".