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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
"verlan" is a slang language formed by putting the word back to front, and the name is (in the ultimate example of self-reference) in fact "backwards" ([à]l'envers) verlanisé (backwardsed) : l'en-vers > verlan. so a demonstration of what it describes.
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I knew verlan existed, we were even "taught" the basics by our french teacher ("original" french), but I can't remember the francophones ever using it.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
in recent years some people have even started to verlaniser words that are already in verlan. so : femme > meuf > feuhmeu. arabe > beur > reubeu.
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Now this is hilarious
Reminds me of an episode in my life: there was a comedy show on late night tv a while back, and they had a skit called
Kentucky Schreit Ficken*, with the Kentucky Fried Chicken Logo and everything. You could say it's a reversal of the first letters of the words. And they used this throughout the skit. Like
Bappy Hirthday or
Bod Gless You or
Soodle Noup etc. Only they used it mostly to get nasty words out of ordinary word combos
Darf ich Sie an die Bheke Titten?
Das ist ein ficker Disch
Na das haben Sie aber gefickt eingeschädelt
Oh it was funny.
Anyhow, me and a few friends picked it up, and had fun creating new sentences. Until the sentences were so engraved in our brains, that we re-reversed the letters again, and wondered why it didn't sound funny anymore, hihi
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Kentucky Schreit Ficken means
Kentucky screams f*ck