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à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
This slang is used as a parallel to the "like" word used by some American slang; the French word for "like", comme, may also be used. [example needed] These words appear often in the same sentence as the word tsé (tu sais = you know) as a form of slipped words within spoken structure.
Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French) and in Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, and a portion of ...
The word lès (French pronunciation: ⓘ, and with liaison) is an archaic French preposition meaning "near", "next to". [1] [2] Today it occurs only in place names to distinguish places with the same name. The word lès has two variants: lez and les. [1]
sous les feux de la presse - under the spotlight of the press; soustraire - to subtract; soustrait - subtracted; soutenez - support; soutien - support; souvenance - remembrance; souvent - often; souverain - sovereign; souveraineté - soveignty; spatules - spatulas; spectacle - shows; spontanées - spontaneous; spécialist - specialist ...
It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words. [1]: 50 The word verlan itself is an example of verlan (making it an autological word). It is derived from inverting the sounds of the syllables in l'envers (, "the inverse", frequently used in the sense of "back-to-front"). The first ...
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