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Verlangen, your moniker resembles the name of the trendy practice in France (known as "Verlan") of reversing the order of spoken words, for example, "jourbon" instead of "bonjour". For those curious about "Verlan", here is an explanation from the New York Times (Aug. 17): "a popular slang called Verlan in which standard French spellings or syllables are reversed or recombined, or both.
Thus the standard greeting ''Bonjour, ça va?'' or ''Good day, how are you?'' becomes ''Jourbon, ça av?'' ''Une fête'' (a party) has become ''une teuf''; the word for woman or wife, femme, has become meuf; a café has become féca; and so on. The word Verlan itself is a Verlanization of the term l'envers, meaning ''the reverse.''
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<<exhorting them to complete a 6-4-3 double play.>>
wots that fer all us nonUSns?
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6-4-3 double play
Imagine, if you will, the batsman hitting the ball to the silly mid on but running anyway (you don't have the luxury of not running in baseball). The silly mid on throws the ball to the silly point who runs out one batsman and throws the ball to the bowler who runs out the other batsman. Of course, since there are only three outs to a baseball innings, this is the equivalent of getting six and two-thirds batsmen out, but since in baseball there are nine innings it is only the equivalent of about three-quarters of a batsman (or three-eighths if it's a test match). That about cover it, Rhuby?
And if you leave the féca do you defécate?
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Moss, weren't you the one who was going to go away and start your own board?  [edit] Whoops. Case of mistaken identity. Hard to keep up with all the names around here! My apologies for the mix-up.
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I've always heard c'mon, let's roll it! in the context of "okay, let's get a move on!"...let's get going, let's get out of here...and especially in military lingo (praps Hollywood military). But, of course, colloquially, the phrase was shortened to let's roll! sometime in the late 60's or early 70's...it was hip to drop the "it".
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It also happens to be German for "need" or "require", says babelfish, who I consulted on a hunch...
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Yeah, it's a real German word, all right, babelfish aside. ;)
Meanwhile, the French word-play is an interesting phenomenon. On a par with Europanto, ¿no?
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"a popular slang called Verlan in which standard French spellings or syllables are reversed or recombined, or both.
Thus the standard greeting ''Bonjour, ça va?'' or ''Good day, how are you?'' becomes ''Jourbon, ça av?'' ''Une fête'' (a party) has become ''une teuf''; the word for woman or wife, femme, has become meuf; a café has become féca; and so on. The word Verlan itself is a Verlanization of the term l'envers, meaning ''the reverse.''
Lohel, ssom, edlightde at ingsee you here. Cimer for that planexation. D'I verne heard of verlan.
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The silly mid on throws the ball to the silly point who runs out one batsman and throws the ball to the bowler who runs out the other batsman.
Well, I dunno what grade cricket match you're watching, Faldo, but y'sure don't be throwin' no ball to silly point to run someone out. Y'd be throwin' it to the wicket keeper, who might then throw it to the bowler at the other end. I'm guessin' if silly point was in there, he'd be in trouble for some kind of obstruction or gettin' smacked around the head by wickie for gettin' in the way!
FWIW. (Any excuse to turn a tenuous link to cricket into an even stronger one!!)
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Y'd be throwin' it to the wicket keeper, who might then throw it to the bowler at the other end. I'm guessin' if silly point was in there, he'd be in trouble for some kind of obstruction or gettin' smacked around the head by wickie for gettin' in the way!
Unless the batsman played a leg glance which was fielded by the keeper, in which case the silly point or other close-to-the-bat fielder would be expected to cover the stumps. Not that you can get two wickets at one time anyway.
And why a 6-4-3 double play?
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