Aidez-moi, s'il vous plait!

[Darlene Proctor]

Comment dit-on, "What's up, buddy?" en francais?

[lauris]

The equivalent of "What's up?" in french is "Quoi de neuf?"

For buddy, you can say "mon pote", but there are more slang expressions you can find.

[stu harris]

Note that Quoi de neuf? is a classic example of a phrase that's been corrupted by the age of chat rooms and text messages. You'll see Koi de 9? or even Koid9?

[lauris]

You can even find "Koi 2 9"

Maybe it could be interesting to make a list of the internet slang in french, because it can be very hard to understand, even for native speakers, and can be a source of mistakes for people learning french

[stu harris]

I think that'd be fun too. Since I'm in a French IRC chat channel every day I see plenty. I'll start a list...

[stu harris]

Seems it's already been done...

http://french.about.com/library/writing/bl-texting.htm

[Neil Coffey]

Still, if you think of any more to add to the list, we can start our own. Incidentally, some of the ones on their list aren't really text/chatspeak per se, but just variants used in any kind of informal writing (e.g. pop songs). Might be helpful to distinguish between the two.