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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by yann63 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:22AM (#22217654)
You could, and it would be correct. But few would understand at first. It sounds like "caisse", like in "caisse de vin" (crate of wine).
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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by forty on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:14PM (#22219470)
It's much more understandable if you add "donc" after "Qu'est ce". I don't really know why, it just adds extra weirdness :)
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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by mehrdadn on Sunday February 02, 2020 @08:19PM (#22220684)
Can you say "Quoi est-ce?" and avoid that ambiguity (and correspondingly, "Qui est-ce?")? Or would that be wrong?
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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by jobigoud on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:02AM (#22223741)
"Qui est-ce ?" is correct. "Quoi est-ce ?" is not. "Quand est-ce" and "Où est-ce" work. "Comment est-ce ?" doesn't really work by itself but could work with something after it, like "Comment est ce film ?".

All of these work and sound more natural in spoken language if you flip and say C'est quoi ? C'est qui ? C'est quand ? etc.

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by bdauvergne on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:45AM (#22222501)
You can't, the "liaison" is mandatory between "quoi" and "est".
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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by julienfr112 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @01:57PM (#22218602)
It could also be used by an "homme de lettre" in a very pompous way.
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