Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words
by kalia35 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:47PM
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Agree. It’s like a bad translation of “as of today”. It is kind of ugly though and to me it sounds awful, especially when you consider that you can replace it by the much more simple and elegant “à ce jour”.
Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words
by K0SM0S on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:40PM
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“Au jour d'aujourd'hui” is most definitely bad grammar, or at bad least style, and thus I'm pretty sure it's wrong in the eyes of linguists, the Académie Française, etc.
But I'm sure the French are not the only ones to elevate some bad grammar/style to a level of consensus. Proof that languages are living things!
No, we use it to emphasize that what we're talking about is as of today, but we can't make projections on the future.
You would use it in a sentence like : au jour d'aujourd'hui there are 'only' 300 deaths from the Chinese virus (implying that you don't know if it's going to get much worse or not).