Do you have this language register in English?
I am not very comfortable with slang because I don't know it very well. I was taught standard English and I have to use standard English in my job.

In French, we use slang too but we have also another language register that is called "verlan". It means speaking backwards.

Some examples : lourd (annoying) becomes relou / fête (party) becomes teuf / énervé (angry) becomes vénère / louche (weird) becomes chelou

Do you have this in English? For example : party would become typar ?

Thank you for your answers. I'm always glad to know more about the English language and its different aspects.

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Do you have this language register in English?
I am not very comfortable with slang because I don't know it very well. I was taught standard English and I have to use standard English in my job.

In French, we use slang too but we have also another language register that is called "verlan". It means speaking backwards.

Some examples : lourd (annoying) becomes relou / fête (party) becomes teuf / énervé (angry) becomes vénère / louche (weird) becomes chelou

Do you have this in English? For example : party would become typar ?

Thank you for your answers. I'm always glad to know more about the English language and its different aspects.

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Hi, in British English there are words that the younger generation use in the opposite way to what anyone else would use them. 
sick =  interesting, cool, never seen before.  
wicked = cool. 
Here are some more examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5RbKflHRGg

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English does not have an equivalent to verlan in French. Most of the time though, slang evolved from shortened versions of the word in question, like "lab" for laboratory, or "cig" for cigarettes. Other times, various figures of speech can be used as slang for words based on how the are perceived by the senses, such as "greens" for vegetables, "smokes" for cigarettes and "Yanks" for Americans.

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@HilaryfromtheUS, merci pour ces informations. Ici, certains mots sont encore utilisés en verlan et on ne fait même plus attention que c'est du verlan tellement que c'est courant ! J'aime bien cette anecdote sur le "Pig Latin", je ne la connaissais pas !

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Pas du tout. Ici, il etait une fois quand on rigolait avec ce que nous appelons "Pig Latin."  Les adultes l'utiliseraient pour eviter les enfants de les comprendre. Par exemple, si on n'aime pas soit Macron, soit Le Pen, "Pig Latin" les rendrait ""Ron-Mac" ou "Pen Le." Mais ce n'est qu'un jeu, une lubie, aux annees 50's et 60's.

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