Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:03 pm
Yesterday, a student saw me through an open window, and said to her friends: /temajaki, temajaki/.
No, this isn't the name of a Japanese dish. This is slangy French for "lookit who's there".
No, this isn't the name of a Japanese dish. This is slangy French for "lookit who's there".
- /tema/ is Verlan for matez. In my idiolect, mater is a colloquial word for "to gaze, to ogle"; but teenagers use it to mean "to look".
- /ja/ is y'a, a common short form of il y a.
- Il y a qui is more common, in colloquial French, than the standard qui est là, "who's there".