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	Verlan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the French language, verlan is the inversion of syllables in a word which is found in slang and youth language.
		Some verlan words (like meuf, from femme=woman) have become so commonplace that they have been included into the Petit Larousse, that a "verlanised" version was rendered necessary, and the verlanised verlan became "feumeu".
		Verlan words and expressions would rather be mixed inside a more general argotique language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verlan (587 words)

	Verlan
		As most potential readers here are not French, here's an attempted example of English verlan, which could be called the versin (inversed inverse).
		A caveat about Verlan is that different rules apply when dealing with one-syllable words.
		Verlan spoken in real has also incorported some non-french words (mainly Arabic words).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ve/Verlan.html (312 words)

	H Verlan Anderson -- Last LDS General Authority Patriot
		Verlan Anderson was, so far as I can tell, the last general authority who knew what was going on in the conspiracy, and was bold enough to publish strong enough hints for those who were partially awake to be bolstered in their awakening.
		Verlan died in 1991 so it has to be older than that.
		From what I have heard, H. Verlan was "called" as a general authority and, once he had accepted, was told that he had to muzzle his patriotic messages.
	www.greaterthings.com /HVerlanAndersen/last_GA_patriot.htm (822 words)

	Verlan
		Doran explained, "Verlan was a way of their establishing their language and their own distinct identity." The term beur, which is a Verlanization of the French word Arabe, refers specifically to the second- and third-generation North Africans.
		Verlan was discovered by mainstream French in the 1980's after a series of major riots and confrontations with police brought the problems of la Cité to the attention of most French.
		And while the emulation of Verlan and banlieu culture might be flattering, she worries about recent polls showing that a majority of French feel that there are too many Arabs in the country.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~cskarocz/french370/boumkoeur/verlan.html (1455 words)

	Parlez-Vous Verlan? - Global Policy Forum - Globalization
		Verlan is a dialect that has emerged from the suburbs across most French cities.
		Teenagers have adopted the new street language as their own, and many social commentators are claiming it is born of inequalities within French society.
		In verlan, syllables in existing French words are reversed to produce a completely new word.
	www.globalpolicy.org /globaliz/cultural/2002/0326verlan.htm (505 words)

	Slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English backward slang tends to reverse words letter by letter while French backward slang tends to reverse words by syllables.
		Verlan is a French slang that uses backward words, similar in its methods to the back slang.
		Louchebem is French butcher's slang, similar to Pig Latin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slang (1277 words)

	Isthay is oolcay. - WordRidden
		Verlan is proof of the power of a shared language to bind people together.
		By expressing themselves through Verlan, they are not only able to communicate, they are also able to express a certain identity - one that is separate from that of mainstream France (just as the housing projects are separated from the hearts of French cities) and yet still a part of it.
		A linguistic phenomenon like Verlan, on the other hand, is much more clever, playful and organic, and I think that, like African American Vernacular English in America, Verlan will be far more politically and sociologically relevant in France than the occasional Anglicisms at which the Academie Francaise continually rails.
	wordridden.com /post/142 (676 words)

	Central Washington University - News and Headlines : Lefkowitz Named CWU Distinguished Teaching Professor
		Verlan is a form of French slang similar to pig Latin.
		It is a suburban street language spoken by marginalized ethnic groups for the purposes of concealment and identity marking.
		Popularized by the media, Verlan has penetrated French society and language to such an extent, that many of the words are now in commonplace usage.
	www.cwu.edu /~relation/pr-june9b-05.html (549 words)

	Verlan Handouts 1-4 Teachers' Copy
		Each one of the student handouts opens with an explanation of what Verlan is and the definition of the task, which we include here only once.
		VERLAN, a French dialect developed in the suburbs of Paris in the early 1980's as a new street language, continues to be spoken today among teenagers across most French cities.
		In Verlan, syllables in existing French words are reversed to produce a totally new word.
	www.laits.utexas.edu /hebrew/personal/language/codes/verlant.html (265 words)

	MemeStreams \| MemeStreams Discussion
		I was intrigued by the notion of verlan and decided to look it up.
		Verlan is a form of French slang that consists of playing around with syllables, kind of along the same lines as pig Latin.
		Verlan was invented as a secret language, a way for people (notably youths, drug users, and criminals) to communicate freely in front of authority figures (parents, police).
	www.memestreams.net /thread/bid22538 (372 words)

	Verlan - Langmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Verlan is one of the most common French language games.
		Verlan is a way of modifying French words by reversing syllables; the name itself is an example: l'envers 'backwards' becomes verlan.
		Verlan may be used to obfuscate French sentences (much as Pig Latin does in English), but also serves as a fertile source of French slang words: e.g.
	www.langmaker.com /db/Verlan (104 words)

	Open Brackets
		Verlan is part of a dizzy array of French argots and patois, which includes langue verte, baragouin, gazouillis, jar, joual, and loucherbem and largonji which are sort of like pig Latin.
		While verlan is a major player in the french hip-hop vocabulary, where form ranks way over substance, it has to play by the house rules, namely sound good to the discriminative ear of the educated “scarla”, verlan for the french slang “lascar” (for “bad boy”).
		Because of the mainly oral culture it happens in, verlan is based on phonation, not spelling, and “funky” in french (prononced with the proper ‘bad boy’ accent and written same) is “fonky”, which sounds roughly like [fone’kee], and therefore would probably become “kyfon” [kee-fon’] or “kyonf” [k’y-honf].
	www.openbrackets.com /article/640/wardsback (1154 words)

	LDS Church Snuffs and Silences H. Verlan Andersen Material
		It's interesting to note the H. Verlan was emeretized, and later, when he died, he barely rated a write up in the Ensign.
		She said he was really for homeschooling and was in the process of writing a book about it, and the Constitution.
		The answer I received from him was quite cryptic, saying that yes, his father had been writing another book, and no I couldn't have a copy of it, as "no one will be reading it", or something to those words.
	www.greaterthings.com /HVerlanAndersen/church_marginalizes.htm (654 words)

	Verlan - Vive la expression - WordReference Forums
		I know specialists use complete phrases in verlan, which make a complete new language you can not understand if you are not used to.
		Verlan is not something very natural to use and neither is written French.
		But probably the verlan has reached now a success which is perhaps due to its use by the beur (which is a now common name for persons of arab origins): beur = arabe.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=3280 (790 words)

	Comments on 19262 \| MetaFilter
		Verlan [2] [3] is the modern Pig Latin of France.
		The controversial French street-movie La Haine contained a lot of Verlan, and was based around the communities that this article discusses.
		Verlan may be acknowledged by the white communities in France but like Cockney Rhyming Slang they do not use it naturally in everyday conversation.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/19262 (670 words)

	[No title]
		In 1969, VERLAN was established by the National Paint and Coatings Association to serve chemical companies throughout market cycles, providing stability and technical understanding.
		Today VERLAN is independent of, but continues to work closely with, the Association.
		Outstanding service, a custom policy and consistent underwriting have made VERLAN the indispensable partner to hundreds of firms who rely on our steadfast commitment to the chemical industry as well as financial response in time of loss.
	www.verlan.com (124 words)

	Argot and Verlan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was adopted both as a means to obscure meaning, by those who wished to communicate about taboo or private matters, from sex to drugs, and as a means of identifying others with common interests or live-styles, in other words as an in-group marker of social identity.
		And swopping the order of these two, we get 'béton' (the spelling of 'verlan' words represents their prononciation, you will note in this example that the word final sound '-er' of 'tomber' is written -é when it occurs in the middle of a word, but the sound is nevertheless the same).
		And today, 'verlan' words are used by most speakers, some of whom do so without realising that words such as 'beur' from 'arabe' are actually 'verlan'.
	www.well.ac.uk /cfol/argot.asp (4247 words)

	USATODAY.com - French youths speaking their own language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's known as Verlan, a centuries-old French form of wordplay that has been reinvented in the bleak apartment blocks crowded with immigrant families from North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
		Arab and non-white hip-hop artists from the gritty suburbs were first to articulate the rage building there — and the first to prophesy social explosion.
		What's unclear is whether the minorities minting new Verlan on the streets and on CDs will gain the same acceptance in France.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-01-05-french-slang_x.htm?csp=34 (1004 words)

	Secret Languages - Verlan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Verlan is a language used mainly by teenagers in France, in which the syllables of a word are reversed, and the term itself is a reversing of the word l'envers, which means 'back to front'.
		The picture is a still from 'La Haine' (Matthieu Kassovitz, 1995), which features use of Verlan by teens from the Paris suburbs (les banlieues).
		It has been suggested that the social reasons for inventing this language is that the teenagers feel excluded from society and therefore they reject the language of the upper classes and intellectuals, and so create their own language by changing the intonation and the syntax.
	ling.man.ac.uk /li3072/whittle/Verlan.html (271 words)

	wc_intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yielding to pressures from merchants the Emperor of Verlan dispatched a fleet Maltese Galleons and several legions of Imperial Marines.
		Once the Nogoth were purged from these lands hundreds of years ago, there was a massive influx of settlers from the Empire of Verlan.
		The Nogoth fought several wars with Verlan, but were eventually defeated.
	home.insightbb.com /~anahuac/wildcoast/wc_intro.htm (1892 words)

	H. Verlan Andersen, General Authority
		The following biographical sketch is adapted from the "News of the Church: Elder H. Verlan Andersen of the First Quorum of the Seventy" published in the Ensign for May 1986 on the occasion of Elder Andersen's call to the First Quorum of the Seventy.
		It had never occurred to Elder H. Verlan Andersen that he might be considered for a position in one of the Church’s governing quorums, so he ponders a bit about the abilities he brings to his new calling as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
		Hans Verlan Andersen was born 6 November 1914 in Logan, Utah, to Hans and Mynoa Richardson Andersen.
	personal.atl.bellsouth.net /w/o/wol3/anderhv1.htm (701 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Its most distinctive feature is a linguistic sleight of hand known as verlan, from l'envers (reverse, or upside down).
		And sometimes verlan itself is abbreviated - guez, for instance, means penis and is a contraction of guezmer, which is itself verlan for merguez (a type of spicy sausage).
		This is known as veul, the most common example being reubeu, which is verlan for beur, itself verlan for arabe (arab).
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3978784,00.html (1333 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We first heard of Verlan when we got notice of the first big BYU Intramural Basketball game between John and Verlan's team of former frosh buddies known as Phil Singer's Jug Band Jamboree, and their shameful 123-10 defeat to The Franchise, another team that was tall, athletic, and wore matching jerseys.
		Verlan had the privilege of meeting John Boy on the famous second floor of Deseret Towers' Q-Hall at BYU during the fall of 2001, and his life has never been the same since.
		Verlan is currently a teammate with Johnny on the famous BYU intramural basketball team, Phil Singer's Jug Band Jamboree, and lives with Q-2 alumni Phil Singer, Jacob Floyd, and Nate Gebhard.
	www.benac.com /friendsverlanlewis.html (238 words)

	English spoken : Systran relieves Verlan
		Cyberladies and Webgentlemen, netwriters, virtual collagists and also real cat lovers, Verlan deeply regrets having to tell you that he will not maintain his loggi@ in two different languages.
		When you'll be over, use the back button of your browser to come back to the original version.
		Verlan (thanks to Systran!) wish you a nice trip.
	perso.orange.fr /verlan/gindex.htm (128 words)

	code languages-- index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Handouts 3-6 deal with Verlan, a French dialect developed in the suburbs of Paris in the early 1980's as a new street language, and spoken today among teenagers across France.
		They are much more challenging than the first two, and the answers to the problems are given on the bottom of the page in case students cannot figure them out.
		The Verlan handouts can be used as a separate activity.
	www.laits.utexas.edu /hebrew/personal/language/codes (156 words)

	WYOM Found Document:SARKEYS v. INDEPENDENT SCH. DIST. NO. 40, ETC.
		The action was brought against Sarkeys, Inc., Sarkeys Foundation, an Oklahoma charitable corporation, Sabine Corporation, a Louisiana corporation, and Verlan W. Harrell, Bill Edwards, Bobby D. Armstrong, Dan Savage, A.R. McCurley, Emmett M. Charles, and Thomas F. McIntyre.
		Verlan W. Harrell, Thomas T. McIntyre, Robert Rizley, Finis Crutchfield, and Philip Kidd constituted the Board of Trustees of Sarkeys Foundation.
		Sarkeys, Inc., is an operating oil and gas company, the stock of which prior to April 29, 1976, constituted the principal asset of Sarkeys Foundation.
	wyomcases.courts.state.wy.us /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=47954 (3163 words)

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