Ofool Russian

[Alina Israeli]

Following on John Dunn's comment, French youth created "le verlan"  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan which is much harder to master (I  
have testimonials of mothers of some teenagers).

An article on Russian "novojaz": http://newsru.com/russia/17may2005/ 
afftor.html


On Mar 6, 2007, at 5:23 AM, John Dunn wrote:

> Anyone who can master the intricacies of English orthography should  
> have no trouble whatsoever. . .
> ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Жаргон_падонков
>




Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387 	
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu




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