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7 years ago Are you planning to use just conventional verlan, or are you planning to reverse the syllables of every word? (I remember coming across verlan while looking at various cants, some of which are very similar -- there's an australian cant involving reversing the spelling of each word, for instance -- and discovering that in many of these, certain words when modified in this way took on their own meanings. For instance, meuf has different connotations than femme from which it is derived, and likewise with yob and boy in the similar english version.)
Is there a french equivalent to cockney rhyming slang? (This is wherein certain words will be substituted with entire phrases that rhyme, and, conventionally over time these phrases become shortened and new rhymes are added as rhymes for the shortened form. For instance "stairs" -> "apples and pears" -> "apples".)
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:29 AM Bilgé Kimyonok notifications@github.com wrote:
My last year's NaNoGenMo https://github.com/WhiteFangs/theatre-jeuxvideocom was about generating a theater piece novel out of the French 4chan-like forums of jeuxvideo.com. The aim was to recontextualize the worst of the French internet dialogues into a highly classical form (The result is here http://louphole.com/divers/Le%20jeuxvideocom%20de%20l'amour%20et%20du%20hasard.html ).
Now this year, I plan to do kind of the opposite : create a program that takes any given text and transforms it into French slang. I think it would be fun to read Descartes' Discourse on the Method in French slang for example. One of the inspirations for this idea is the French-famous Les boloss des Belles Lettres http://bolossdesbelleslettres.tumblr.com/ (it would translate in english as The Belles-Lettres' losers) who write summaries of literature classics in slang French.
There are many different ways of slang in French, I will try to implement several of them, as best as I can. Here's a list of French slang features I would like to implement:
- Verlan (≈ Pig Latin in English?): cutting the word in two between two syllables and reverse the parts. Example: Ripou is the verlan of Pourri
- Wesh: adding slang words or exclamations like "wesh", "gros", "sisi", "tkt", "tmtc", that are just used as punctuation ("Wesh" is the equivalent of "Yo" in English)
- SMS writing: simplifying the writing of words using shortcuts like in English for example when you write sk8 instead of skate
- Poseyyy: emphasizing the endings of words that finish with the sound "é" by adding "eyyyy". Sometimes also duplicating the first syllables in the word, for example here: Poposeyyy (a slang made famous by a strange rapper(?) called Swagg man)
- Other: multiplying the punctuations (typical internet comment writing style), etc ?
Maybe I aim to do many different slang styles and features so I was thinking to also implement a range input for every feature so that users can choose its degree in the text transformation.
The program could be on a webpage using a textarea field for text input, but I would prefer it as a browser extension that allows it to be run on any visited webpage using Chrome or Firefox. It will be coded in Javascript.
I already have some resources for working on French syllables in a small JS package I created called metriques.js https://github.com/WhiteFangs/metriques.js. I know how to create a Chrome extension but not Firefox so some advice about this would be helpful. Also, the goal of the extension being to alter the text content of a webpage, finding a code that already implements this kind of idea would be a good inspiration.
I would also love feedback on the idea or any information that would be help me in the project, even not in French!
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My last year's NaNoGenMo was about generating a theater piece novel out of the French 4chan-like forums of jeuxvideo.com. The aim was to recontextualize the worst of the French internet dialogues into a highly classical form (The result is here).
Now this year, I plan to do kind of the opposite : create a program that takes any given text and transforms it into French slang. I think it would be fun to read Descartes' Discourse on the Method in French slang for example. One of the inspirations for this idea is the French-famous Les boloss des Belles Lettres (it would translate in english as The Belles-Lettres' losers) who write summaries of literature classics in French slang.
There are many different ways of slang in French, I will try to implement several of them, as best as I can. Here's a list of French slang features I would like to implement:
Maybe I aim to do many different slang styles and features so I was thinking to also implement a range input for every feature so that users can choose its degree in the text transformation.
The program could be on a webpage using a textarea field for text input, but I would prefer it as a browser extension that allows it to be run on any visited webpage using Chrome or Firefox. It will be coded in Javascript.
I already have some resources for working on French syllables in a small JS package I created called metriques.js. I know how to create a Chrome extension but not Firefox so some advice about this would be helpful. Also, the goal of the extension being to alter the text content of a webpage, finding a code that already implements this kind of idea would be a good inspiration.
I would also love feedback on the idea or any information that would be help me in the project, even not in French!