the word hotel bears the same meaning as in English (i.e. a normal tourist hotel), whereas telo implies that the establishment is actually a love hotel. These reversed words are only spoken; rarely found in writing. In other languages Colloquial French has a form of intentional metathesis known as verlan. Greek has Podaná with the same morphological construction. Serbian has a form of slang called Šatrovački followed in the 1990s with a more ambiguous slang called utrovački. Romanian has Totoiana with a similar morphological construction, spoken in the village of Totoi. Italian has riocontra featuring inversion of syllables, spoken in Milan and trancorio, spoken in the Mompiano neighborhood of Brescia. Buenos Aires Tango Language games Cant languages Spanish slang Languages of Argentina Languages of Uruguay