[Sigia-l] Textonyms

[Timo Kouwenhoven]

In the Parisian suburbs the same happens, it's called verlan (a l'inverse).

Fete (party) becomes teuf
Flic (a cop) becomes keuf
Arab becomes beure or rebeu

Voiture (an automobile) = Bagnole (a car) becomes une gnolba

et cetera

On 08/02/2008, Patrick Walsh <patrick.walsh at hertshighways.org.uk> wrote:
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> In Victorian London the costermongers (fruit sellers) had their own
> language - back chat consisting of normal english words spelt and
> pronounced backwards.
> As a teenager in the 60's my parents always complained that they couldn't
> understand a word I said; words like 'cool',  'fab', 'man' and  'groovy'
> were another language to them.
> I have a 13 year old son and am now understand how my parents felt.
>
> Groups have always defined themselves by a shared esoteric language.
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> 'Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose'
>
> Patrick C. Walsh,
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Timo Kouwenhoven
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