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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 pronounciation, letters may be judiciously transposed (i.e., "shit" becomes "tish"), and sometimes initial consonants are pronounced separately (i.e., "bmal" is pronounced "bee-mal").
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 somewhat of a decline in recent decades; where once butchers could hold entire conversations in rechtub klat, these days a smaller vocabulary is used.
In France, the language game Louchébem was used by butchers for similar purposes.
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