How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by tux3 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:57PM (#38676871)

French has "verlan", which is when you swap some of the syllables of a word to give it a slang or "street" vibe.

The world "verlan" itself is verlan for "envers" ("in reverse")

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by eternauta3k on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:02AM (#38679685)

Cute, same thing in Buenos Aires Spanish.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by darkwater on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:18AM (#38680874)

TIL and this clicks a lot with Italian slang in the town I growth where we did exactly this as early teenagers 30 years ago.

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