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.

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July 25, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Cheesy Flojo
Verlan for Flic is keuf (Flic >>> [Fli - Que] >>> [Que - Fli] >>> then we squizz “LI” and it gives Quef >>> Keuf.
Mec is not verlan. Verlan for Mec is Keum.
>> [Me - Que] >> [Que - Me] >> [Quem] >> Keum
Girafe : Raf-gi
Cheesy