Re: USAGE: minimum number of vowels?
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 12:53 |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:58:41 -0700, Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:
>French 'verlan' tends to use only one vowel: "eu", or
>[9] if you prefer.
>
>Verlan means "l'envers" (reversing the syllables).
>Attested vocables sound like :
>
>femme (woman) > meuf
>flic (cop) > keuf
>fete (party) > teuf
>shit (haschish) > teush(i)...
French teacher once told that she was sitting in a restaurant in Spain and
her little daughter had made all the family talking in that play language
where all vowels are replaced by [i] or [i:] (or [O_r, O_r] etc., a common
language game in Swiss German), until a German tourist was so curious what
strange language they were speaking that he asked them (he didn't have the
faintest idea.
g_0ry@_^s:
j. 'mach' wust