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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by playingalong on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:54PM (#38676834)
They likely meant non-standard word order in a sentence. Not reading the words backwards.
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by seszett on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:20PM (#38677044)
No, it's speaking the word backwards, syllable-wise.

L'envers becomes verlan, femme becomes meuf, fête teuf, louche is chelou and merci is cimer, for the most common, everyday words.

It can even go further, with Arabe becoming Beur which itself gets verlanised into Rebeu. Or meuf, femeu.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by ttoinou on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:59PM (#38678783)
I thought Beur was from Beurre and its yellow color
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by uxp8u61q on Monday December 18, 2023 @02:23AM (#38680035)
The (racist) stereotype is that Asians have yellow skin, not Arabs...?!
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by ttoinou on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:33AM (#38683029)
What color would be associated with the Arabic ethnotype ?
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