He's Haitian,
He's speaking Creole.
It means
That's Creole
from Haiti.
I have Haitian origins.
Because Creole can be from another country.
Like Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion…
I thought of someting.
It's funny that slaves back in the day started to speak Creole.
When in Mauritius, they all created a new language.
Well, it's not funny.
It's not funny at all,
but that same thing happened at several places at once,
the creation of a new language based on French,
which was the language of the settlers.
Are different Creoles similar?
They are but they're different.
Unfortunately, at some point, slavery happend in Haiti
and in Mauritius too,
and slaves all had the same idea.
We'll mix it up and create a language which the whites can't understand.
So it's kind of funny.
Very funny, it's somewhat like Verlan in France.
Right, that's precisely it.
Verlan was first created so the cops couldn't understand.
There's the example of, Je bicrave des skeuds,
you can't understand that.
Bicrave des skeuds?
It means that I sell CDs.
That's the way we talked when I was young
so that people or cops wouldn't understand.
Of course, and it doesn't help that I'm not French.
It's also the same as the Cockney Rhyming Slang.
You don't know Cockney Rhyming Slang?
You're going to learn!
For Certe Mathurin,
I'd like those who know what Cockney Rhyming Slang is
to write your favorite ones in the comments--
-It can be written? -Yes.
We'll see how Certe, who's clearly useless now…
Totally.
We'll try to explain to him what is Cockney Rhyming Slang.
Do you know what Cockney is?
Isn't it a nutshell?
No, and I thought you would say it's cock and knee.
This isn't it at all, but it might be it,
cock-knee, why not?
It's the language of Eastern London.
Have you seen Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?
Art, crime et botanique?
Art, crime et botanique, yes.
Snatch?
Their English.
They're speaking Cockney.
Like Peaky Blinders.
It's similar, but Peaky Blinders is Birmingham.
But it's an equivalent.
It's parlance.
It was created for…
Like Verlan, so that the cops won't understand.
The principle is to replace some word by a corresponding rhyming expression.
Here's an example.
The pub…
It's too similar.
I'm so drunk I forgot.
They say…
Les pommes et les poires.
is the Cockney Rhyming Slang for the word "stairs."
Escaliers.
That's the classic example.
You just need to know--
The brain mechanics.
For example.
That's the Cockney Rhyming Slang, but the real word?
I'll never find it.
Think about what "trouble" is the word "strife" rhyming with.
Who's a pain in the ass.
That's what needed to be said, now I got it.
So if you say,
it means going back to your wife.
How creative people are!
It's astonishing!
Chien et os…
Here's a context.
Go ahead.
In some actual context, I would say,
-Phone? -Yes.
but I think it's right.
That's so subtle, you have to know…
Are there a defined list, can we create some?
We can create some more, one of the more recent is
It's more recent.
In a sentence?
A sentence could be
The French would say it's "pulled by the hair."
It became so…
Nowadays, many people
only use the first word.
Assuming you understand the second word.
So we sould say,
And they understand?
Look, there's a last one.
That's so creative!
It's more creative than Verlan, which you quickly get, it's reverse.
Do you know cream crackers?
I think it…
I think they are kind of cookies?
Yes.
It's an English thing…
Here's my phone.
That's what I thought, they're crackers.
We call them cream crackers because of the cream inside,
we eat them with cheese instead of baguette
because English bread is shit.
We eat crackers.
So these are creme crackers, but
I would say,
What's the word that rhymes with "crackered?"
Isn't "tired" rhyming?
No, we rather say--
It's very British, did you know "knackered?"
I didn't know.
Spelled K-N-A-C-K-E-R-E-D.
And it means
It means "exhausted."
It's so British, even Americans don't know it.
I'm tired.
You British are so creative.
Verlan is quick to catch on.
Yes.
It's quick to catch on, until you get, for example, to meuf.
Meuf is a funny word, do you know it?
Yes.
The real word is femme.
We would say meuf, but more people are now saying feumeu.
Feumeu is the Verlan of the Verlan.
-It was in my show. -Really?
Didn't I tell you a few years ago?
Yes, I did a number about how I didn't understand Verlan at first
where I explained how you flip words for no good reason.
I also explain the Verlan of the Verlan, femme, meuf, feumeu.
It goes around.
Arabe, reubeu…
No, Arabe, beur, reubeu.
It makes no sense.