Rechtub klat is a cryptolect used by butchers in Australia to hold conversations without customers overhearing. Rechtub klat is essentially a form of backslang, and consists of saying words as they would be pronounced backwards. To aid in pronunciation, anagrams may be employed (i.e., "shit" becomes "tish"), and sometimes initial consonants are pronounced separately (i.e., "bmal" is pronounced "bee-mal"). It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with cant (language). ... Butcher shop in Valencia A butcher is someone who prepares various meats and other related goods for sale. ... Two forms of slang are known as Backslang. ... An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. ... Look up Shit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Rechtub klat is often used for discussing customers who are in earshot; common uses involve commenting on the physical attributes of female customers or complaining about difficult customers. It has fallen into something of a decline in recent decades. Where once butchers could hold entire conversations in rechtub klat, these days a smaller vocabulary is used.

Example words include:
Kool, look
toh, hot
lrig, girl
Cuf and also Kay-cuffed, fucked
ecaf, face
On, on
erom, more
Traf, fart
Toor, root
Doog, good
tsub, bust
esra, arse
Gaf, fag
tar, rat
tee-nuk, cunt
on doog, no good
sip foe, piss off
yen-om, money
uoo rus, you are
kay-laughing, talking

In France, the language game Louchébem was used by butchers for similar purposes. A language-game is a philosophical term of art developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. ... Louchébem or loucherbem is Parisian and Lyonnaise butchers ( Fr. ...

An example of rechtub klat can be heard in the 2002 film The Hard Word, starring Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Guy Pearce in Memento (2000). ... Rachel Griffiths Rachel Griffiths (born June 4, 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a film and television actress. ...

See also

• backslang
• cant (language)
• language game
• Polari
• Zatanna

Two forms of slang are known as Backslang. ... Cant is an example of a cryptolect, a characteristic or secret language used only by members of a group, often used to conceal the meaning from those outside the group. ... A language-game is a philosophical term of art developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. ... Polari (or alternatively Palare, from Italian parlare, to talk) was a form of cant slang used in the gay subculture in Britain. ... Zatanna Zatara is a fictional wizard and a superheroine in the DC universe. ...

External links

• Tricks of the trade
• Slang site
• The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: All Men Are Liars - The secret language of butchers