2020
When i first started to get to know people who used the 'innit' word, i simply saw them as being lazy communicators - simply saying innit, rather than isn't it...
However, as me street smarts started to more readily develop, i realised that the innit word actually conveyed a heck of a lot more than i had originally thought - and that it is an emotionally based word...
For example...
'This weed's good innit' - followed by a much more emphasised 'innit', in order to more readily convey agreement...
Or when two guys meet on the street for example...
'Where's ya bin'??? - 'signin' on innit'...
...Conveying the sheer pain/inconvenience of the longer-term unemployed guy, whose mental health is slipping deeper into depression perhaps - knowing/feeling that the longer he's out of work, the less chance there is of him getting/securing a job...
...So it speaks of a growing sense of futility/isolation/non-belonging of having to go through the repeated two-weekly signing on process - to seemingly no useful purpose...
...It can also convey the emotion of certain frustration - the silent 'where due think i've bin', with a possibly unspoken 'numbnuts'/'dickhead' added at the end, if anger/annoyance at being reminded of such an ongoing predicament is present/felt...
...Depending, also perhaps, upon the general ongoing relationship that he has with the enquirer within question...
And then there's the lying use of the word 'innit' of course...
Whereby a guy meets up with a mate at someone's house, for example - and he's asked a question by one of his mates, but won't answer truthfully because he doesn't know whether he can trust certain unknown / partially known others within the group...
...Resulting in him purposely telling his mate a lie - with the 'innit' word added in a somewhat knowing way (like a somewhat hidden communication, if you will)...
...And sometimes accompanied by a sly/dodgy/untrusting look towards the guy he's refering to perhaps...
...Or perhaps simply lying to both his mate and all others present also - out of a sense of shame perhaps (knowing/feeling that if he tells the truth, he risks losing acceptance within such a group)...
So, bottom line - if you see/view the 'innit' word in a somewhat judgemental/dismissive way/manner, know that such ignorance lies within yourself, rather than within other, more street-wise, people/individuals...
...Because it's actually quite an interestingly in-depth word...
So respect to the 'innit' word yeah - 'cos there's a heck of a lot more to it than initially enters the mind (most definitely more than i have conveyed here in fact innit(a recognition of my still-ongoing relative ignorance with regard to such a word perhaps) - knowingly or otherwise by myself perhaps)...
(https://www.ourquantumparticulates.org/videos/the-innit-word)