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Linguistics: “faire belek”, “j’ai dead ça”, “chockbar”… Do you speak the French of 2024?
Expressions change, and this is proof that our language is alive. So it’s time to ask yourself if you speak “2024”. – (France 2)
Expressions change, and this is proof that our language is alive. So it’s time to ask yourself if you speak “2024”.
It would be a little easy to fill your head with esoteric words for those over 28 and 29 years old. “Hassoulit means quiet”, “to do belek is to be careful”, “A maxeurhe is someone who is always in abuse”translate young people. “In chap-chapit’s more of an Ivorian expression, but it means to do something quickly”, explains a young man. Le 20 Heures asked several young people to translate certain expressions. “I have dead That” means we succeeded. “I am chockbar” means to be shocked.
A slang that is not so new
On TikTokJosette, Claude and their grandson try to solve these linguistic enigmas. “It’s fun and we feel like we’re still in the game”, explains the grandfather. Slang, a cryptic language among initiates, is often funny and is nothing new. 40 years ago, young people were already asked what it meant “keufs” (police officers), thugs or even “gadjo” (young man). The verlan is already two centuries old. We keep turning our tongue in our mouth and when words enter the dictionary, it is urgent to invent others.
