07.11.2008, 11:15 AM
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the destroyed room
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 613
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Originally Posted by o o o
By the way, does anyone know if other languages have an equivalent of verlan?
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OK, apparently yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan
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The use of verlan is less widespread in English-speaking countries, likely because morphology in French is less strict than in English, and so French syllables are more conducive to inversion from linguistic and aesthetic standpoints. However, similar manners of speaking such as Pig Latin or "backslang", are used in English-speaking cultures (see Language game). A form of slang very similar to verlan is used in Greek, called "podana", itself an inversed form of "anapoda" (i.e. backwards). Verlan is also very similar, if not identical, to the slang often used in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia in the Serbo-croat languages and Macedonian. This slang, "satrovacki" and sometimes labeled as the 8th case, is popular among the youth in especially Sarajevo and Belgrade.
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