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I’ve always imagined the inverted words written with the original spelling: « Comme aç » for « Comme ça », which adds more poetry to the word to my opinion. Th
by alexis_fr 7y ago
I’ve always imagined the inverted words written with the original spelling: « Comme aç » for « Comme ça », which adds more poetry to the word to my opinion.
They don’t talk about words inherited from SMS mistakes, but I would add « aps » (for « pas », as in « je sais aps » = « I don’t kown »).
- juliendorra 7y agoI’m not sure ‘aps’ is coming from SMS/texting as it was used (if memory serves) in the early 90s when cellphones were very rarely used. It’s most probably the same phenomenon as other verlan words: a mix of phonetic inversion and some influence from the writing form.