Apparently there is tons of French young people's argot like that which is even more confusing. I say apparently because I've only read about it - thankfully the kind of people I meet just speak in varying degrees of comprehensible or not French. French I can cope with!ina wrote:
I have no idea what the heck you are all talking about... Am I still in Britain?
The use of language...
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What makes me wonder - there's so few British people who bother to learn another language, expecting everybody else to speak English (I know there are more than average foreign language speakers on this site!) - but then they go out of their way to create another language (or languages) that nobody in their right mind understands?!
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I come into contact with alot of French argot. To the extent where for my (academic) project, I'm having to adopt words like moeuf to interview people. No-one's tried teaching me "schti" yet... though French Bloke (AKA current OH) usually speaks it with friends and I'm getting an ear to understanding it.
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i have just read through this thread head now hurts lots still don't understand this text talk/gibberish have enough trouble with english beening dyslexic (think thats spelt right cause it looks wrong) . why do we need to be less understandable it baffles me if i get a text full of this gobbledegook delete works for me
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