"Caisse", "car", "gova"... so many words to designate the "car".
And yet one thing separates them: they do not come from the same generation.
References and influences evolve and periodically renew these batches of expression that come to invade our conversations.
Thus, few young people continue to use "chanmé" or "au poil".
And no one knew, thirty years ago, the exclamation that went viral “wesh”.
If the "boomers" (people born according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory between 1943 and the 1960s) have shown inventiveness in building up a rich and colorful vocabulary, Generation Z (people born between 1997 and 2010) is no exception.
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Le Figaro invites
you to reconnect with classic translation exercises to test your knowledge of popular expressions of yesterday and today.
Will you be able to overcome generational divides to overcome these ten questions?