"PLS, I have the seum, I am at the end of my life": from the newspeak of teens to the language of sores in 2021 mode

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Cover of the book "I am shocked!"

Crazy !

I confess!

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© Éditions Leduc Pratique

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

30 mins

Wesh!

So askip, the expressions of young people in 2021 have changed?

But phew!

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We still speak verlan, but other words even enter the dictionary to put adults in PLS!

Where do these expressions come from, how and why are they used?

Guest: Adèle Bréau,

journalist, author of

I am shocked!

Crazy ! 

I confess!

with Leduc editions.

Micro-sidewalk by

Cécile Lavolot 

who left the classes to identify the expressions of 2021 in playgrounds. 

And chronic "A Flea in Her Ear" of

Lucia Bouteloup 

Making a last stand

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A chronicle to be found on the

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