Entre otras cosas

Arno is always hungry, and as the clock was hitting 12 he couldn’t wait longer and started talking about what we would have for lunch, so he started to wonder and to explore all the differents options that we could have for lunch, the only bad thing is that he is in diet, since he stop smoking he gain some weight. So there where many limitations in his wondering, until he arrived to the idea of a Greek Salad from the sandwich deli. Then is when he said: Y’a bon dans gros bidon. And so my lesson started: The literal translation would be “It would be good for my big bootle“. Bootle is a word also for belly or stomack, the best word to describe the expression is: It’s yummy.

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The computer of Arno broke, Julien and Arno where trying to fix it as I heard a weird french pronuntiation as if they where acting a cheap soap opera. I asked them what where they talking and they metion Supreme NTM the initials stands for Nique ta mère, he is one of the most famous rappers in France.

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As I thought them a slang word in english I told them about Tomboy and the concept and they told me that in french they would say Garçon manque. Manque is to miss, garçon is men.

Verlan is a way to talk and to change words to say things in French, specially in France. This is my first approach to it, but they use it a lot in my office. They explain that the word is actually a verlam of a l’inver saying words backwards. My coworkers where telling me about Le Meuf of another friend. And well Le Mef comes from Femme where they say it backwards to Meuf that sounds like Mefe but they don’t say the e. Sounds really complicated. Another word they said a lot was Flic which is cop.

And for men they say Mec.

The sentence that they thought me in Verlam is:
Zyva t’es relou dans ta teuté Which is the form that you pronounce it which wants to say: Vas y, t’es lourd dans la tête. That means saying nonsense or crazy things. They had a hard time explaining the concept. But its also you drive me crazy.

What I like about learning new languages is being able to expand the conceptions that you have of your surroundings. Being able to describe experiences with precision.

At my internship I learned each day weird words.

Quand tu nos tiens
We where working in a Monday morning and the mood was comme Lundi. Arno puts music and we all started listing to heavy Rock n’Roll ass the crescendo started Arno says Quand tu nous tiens, that literally means: when you hold us. He explained that the phrase was used for moments of complete pleasure or hapinesss.

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