Additional bizarre Parisian gniht
People in Paris STILL use verlan, saying words backwards- hanging out with some friends who were in the Jewish dating scene I was introduced to FIUL, and heard several emmefs in conversation. The more aggressive cem seems less used, but that was always the case.
This seems, to someone from the more rapidly evolving UK/USA world of English, incredibly too much “clever 1950s” and very strange that it is still in use, and apparently has been in constant use since people started using it. I think it is mostly Parisian, but in a sense you would expect them to be the ones moving onto the next new thing the fastest. But maybe we’d better get hip to this, and dig it, dadio (natch).