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scarlet marten
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or should i use wesh in the first place or wait until im more comfortable with the language ?

quiet timber
scarlet marten
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tysm !!!!

quiet timber
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de rien 😄

scarlet marten
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also, if any native speakers see this, does wesh sound masculine ?

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cause i feel like a lot of english slang does so im curious if it happens in french too

willow patio
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not necessarily, I hear it from men and women alike
but it is street talk

elfin rapids
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;wesh

cold sleetBOT
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What does "wsh" or "wesh" mean?

For starters, "wsh" is just "wesh" shortened. "wesh" is a word loaned from Arabic that made its way into the French language quite some time ago. The meaning is not the same anymore, so some Arabic speakers can be thrown off by how French people use it. In French, "wesh" is just used like "yo" in English. It can be a greeting, an exclamation, a filler word... It might take you some time to grasp how to correctly use it, but if you know how to use "yo" in English, it should be easier for you to use "wesh" or "wsh" in French. Oh, and of course, it is very much informal.

elfin rapids
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You might get made fun of or get a laugh from people if you use it. May get criticized depending on the person. Not everyone uses it, it's pretty divisive and very informal. I often hear it used more ironically than anything

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It's common enough but imo I'd get a feel for it before throwing it around. It's overall harmless though so if you don't mind attracting a bit of attention it's not like you're going to insult anyone

pulsar wind
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You shouldn’t use it, a lot of people hate this word (myself included). It’s a speech tic used by young people that will be poorly received 80% of the time by adults, even in informal conversations.

willow patio
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it's slang and it's used. I use it myself. It's important that they know the context, but they can come to their own conclusion whether they want to include it in their speech

scarlet marten
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minor knoll
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But adults don't use it

scarlet marten
quiet timber
elfin rapids
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Verlan is old

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Mec is pretty neutral to my knowledge. It sounds very silly to me but that's bc we don't use it in quebec

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Wesh is the ""worst"" of the ones you cited specifically

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"du coup" gets a bad rap as well but it's much more common

quiet timber
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Is kiffer pretty "bad" too? It seems like the arabic loanwords are more controversial

elfin rapids
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Genre is very neutral unless you're saying it literally every other word

quiet timber
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Gotcha, thanks!

elfin rapids
quiet timber
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Understood 👍

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Good question @scarlet marten this is a great discussion lol

quiet timber
elfin rapids
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It's very old slang so you'll hear a lot of it more from adults/older folk. Some specific ones have just become "regular speech" so age doesn't affect it, though the one space you'll hear unusual ones (aside from older folk) is rap, where they'll use obscure ones or make them up

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You might occasionally see kids messing around with it cuz they find it slangy/cool but not too often imo

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Kinda like you don't see ixnay much in english anymore

quiet timber
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Ouah, intéressant

minor knoll
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well verlan is just a type of slang

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some verlan words are outdated, some are new

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chanmé is only used by people 40+, chelou is used by people 25-