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Friday, December 23, 2005

Old Franglais

... speaking of class matters and the pretentious use of macaronic branding in the USA: it slays me how one kind of Franglais could become a pretentious accent in Paris: "les people sont si fair-play," "leur style est tres destroy," "c'est tellement design chez eux"... while on the other hand, language purists frown upon a more proletarian Franglais that has become permanently a part of everyday French -- "le week-end," "top" or even "hyper-top!" - Thus one might even consider modern English an Old Franglais!

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