Verlan: French slang that inverses words

Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by jeanmichelx on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:17AM (#22216429)

Oh gosh I've been using some of these words without even realising they were shortened verlan.

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by tripa on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:14AM (#22216989)

I'll add the two I had to have explained to me:

chèm <- moche (ugly), not to be confused with chanmé <- méchant (bad) (think bad motherfucker), whose ending can't affort to drop.

reuch <- cher (expensive), not to be understood as an anglicism for "rush".

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by jvelo on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:44PM (#22218933)

> chèm <- moche (ugly)

You'd write it cheum (moche => cheu-mo => cheum')

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by tripa on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:42PM (#22219995)

I've only ever heard is as chèm, so that's how I'd write it.

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by jvelo on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:57AM (#22234248)

Sorry, I meant "it's written cheum"

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