Complexity of french language As a french person I know how difficult is the french language, not only to speak but also to write even for french people. The grammar is not easy and the spelling is a real brain teaser. It's very easy to make mistakes even when writing a small email. That's why now, in several companies they check your ability to write french correctly. As if it was not complicated enough, we (especially the teenagers) like to invent and create new expressions or words in french. The real motivation I think is to be able to speak with our friends without the parents understand. And this also shows of which generation you are from. Because you only know the expressions of your generation, since after you grow up and become older you're no more aware of the new created expressions, because they are generally invented at school. When I was young, earlier in the 90s, the new fashion way to speak was to speak in upside down. But not the entire sentence, just particular words like crazy, annoyed, woman, .... I think it's better if I explain it to you with an example. Let's take the word crazy. Instead of saying "This guy is so crazy", you would have said in upside down "this guy is so zy-cra". I can remember how excited we were with my friends when talking like that at school. It was like speaking as the bad boys, because this way to speak was used in several french musics like R&B, rap, .... I have 10 years difference with my little bother, and sometimes when he speaks with his friends using new expressions that I'm not able to understand I feel old :( I'm not against this language creativity, on the contrary I found it funny when I was young. But now I'm aware that the majority of the young generation is no more able to write and even speak french correctly which at the basis is a great language, but they deform and soil it. I think it's never good when it's too much. I was wondering if in the other countries it exists this kind of "language creation" ?