tschneider@watarts.UUCP (08/21/83)
what is franglaise, anyway? Is that like "le hamburger", "le star big"?
rjb@cucard.UUCP (08/31/83)
Franglais is what the french call english and american words and phrases adapted into colloquial french (e.g. le drug store, le weekend, ... these are the most often quoted examples that i've run across, i'm sure someone out there can give other, more amusing examples) -- Reidar Bornholdt ..!harpo!cucard!reidar
velu@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/08/83)
An amusing example of Franglais is 'le jeans'. 'Le jeans' is one of the words on the Commisoner of State's Blak list - as words which are not ''french''. The funny thing about it is that Jeans is originally from the French, from the Jeaane cloth (I think...) (sp?) from which sacks and sails were made. It was out of this cloth ( a denim... ) that the original Jeans were made. So the French are not alowing into their language a peace of their own heritage... [8-( -- Velu Sinha
berry@zinfandel.UUCP (09/09/83)
#R:watarts:-199500:zinfandel:15500005:000:190 zinfandel!berry Aug 30 16:23:00 1983 Other common franglais frases are "le picnic" and "faire le camping". Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900 PS shouldn't this be in net.nlang?