He refers to Multicultural London English, generally known as MLE, which features new words borrowed from outside the UK — exactly the variety of slang that Andy, of West African origin, is talking about. MLE is often linked to recently emerged multicultural hybrid "Jafaican," or fake Jamaican, with West African and Asian undertones.

Lucas has always denied the allegations of racial stereotyping in [Jar Jar] Binks's esoteric Jafaican patois, but they won't go away.

Over the past decade, however, the Cockney of my generation has been replaced with the street slang known as ‘Jafaican’, a form of patois picked up by black yout’ in London and eventually by kids from pretty much all ethnic and social backgrounds in towns and cities throughout the UK.

The phenomenon, which has been variously described as "Jafaican" — a combination of Caribbean and African — or Tikkiny, in honour of the influence of Bengali in areas such as Tower Hamlets, is more properly referred to as "multicultural London English".