[SYRFox]

Thanks y'all!

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

he's prolly out getting drunk as we speak

enjoy!

Ahah, not getting drunk but I'll party tonight! Yayz!

[o o o]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

TPE: 19/20
Oral french: 15/20
Written french: 14/20

Congratulations, these marks sound super good... At least, it would have been at the time I passed it (especially a mark like 19/20 was very rare at the time, I seem to remember)...

Originally Posted by racehorse

Those Verlan (l'envers) slang words are damn confusing

By the way, does anyone know if other languages have an equivalent of verlan?

[o o o]

Originally Posted by o o o

By the way, does anyone know if other languages have an equivalent of verlan?

OK, apparently yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan

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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By the way, does anyone know if other languages have an equivalent of verlan?[/quote]

yeah in argentina, lunfardo is this ancient so-called "criminal" argot which includes tons of reversed words.


lemmi see, something you can read...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunfardo
there!

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many of those reversed words remain or are created anew in the slang of other south american countries however.

in peruvian slang, while it's not "codified", theres a ton of slang words like that.

[o o o]

Lunfardo is frequently found in the lyrics of tangos, supplying nuances and double-entendres with overtones of sex, drugs, and the criminal underworld.

ooh, i think i've heard about it in a tv documentary about argentina...

café con leche (latte, café au lait) becomes feca con chele

hmmm... "feca" sounds too much like an other word to be appetizing...

reminds me of the expression "me cago en la leche" too.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

YAHA!

TPE: 19/20
Oral french: 15/20
Written french: 14/20

NEEEEEEEERD

[Alex's Trip]

I got my AP results!

They are out of 5.

I got a 2 on Chemistry (the only thing I learned from that class was that I am not interested in science.

I got a 4 in US history, and a 5 in English.

So I'm happy.

[SYRFox]

Great guy! Congratulations

[Alex's Trip]

Thanks.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by o o o

ooh, i think i've heard about it in a tv documentary about argentina...



hmmm... "feca" sounds too much like an other word to be appetizing...

reminds me of the expression "me cago en la leche" too.

ha ha yeah hm "feca" is lame. well i didnt say it was "cool", it's just an annoying affectation, byt yeah.

me cago en la leche, ha ha ha-- that's from spain-- we latin americans don't say that at all.

other places where spaniards cagan are-- dios, cristo, la ostia, (somebody's) puta madre, etc.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

Thanks y'all!



Ahah, not getting drunk but I'll party tonight! Yayz!

i hope you've fully recovered!

[acousticrock87]

Haha I mentioned the cago en la leche phrase to my Guatemalan friend once and he just gave me a weird look.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Haha I mentioned the cago en la leche phrase to my Guatemalan friend once and he just gave me a weird look.

apparently my paternal grandfather used to scream "me cago en cristo!" whenever he was frustrated or pissed off, which i'm told happened often.

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

me cago en la leche, ha ha ha-- that's from spain-- we latin americans don't say that at all.

other places where spaniards cagan are-- dios, cristo, la ostia, (somebody's) puta madre, etc.

heard in the subway in Madrid (not by me, though) where two men were arguing loudly: "me cago en tus muertos!"

apparently it's quite harsh, even for Spaniards who are used to cagar everywhere...

when i was around twelve, i did a trip with my class in Spain and our teacher made us all buy a very small guide which included also a lot of vocabulary / useful phrases... we discovered quickly that there were 3-4 pages entirely consisting of insults, and this is where we learned the most vocabulary during the trip. can't remember that much, though.