Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words
by geofft on Sunday February 02, 2020 @08:05AM
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I missed something, where does "light" come from? How did we get from "jour d'aujourd'hui" to "connaisance d'aujourd'hui" - where's the intermediate "lumière d'aujourd'hui"?
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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words
by perthmad on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:21AM
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"Jour" is polysemic, it literally means "day", but metaphorically it also means "light". For instance, "voir quelque chose sous un nouveau jour" means "to see something under a new light", rather than "a new day".