[Lexicog] Kiezdeutsch

[Fritz Goerling]

Among young migrants in Germany (in Berlin) a new language is developing.
The sentences of this laconic, economical sociolect sound strange and
familiar at the same time. You might hear for example: "I make you
hospital", meaning "I beat you up so that you are ripe for the hospital." I
make you knife", meaning "I attack you with a knife" or "You make red
light", meaning "You are jaywalking."

Are there similar phenomena in your languages?

 

Fritz Goerling
 

 

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