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Originally Posted by Xenophon
I remember a long-ago article on the Académie that attempted to explain it to us poor clueless Americans. They provided a handy table to give words the Académie complained about, along with their english translations. A few examples:
"French" --> English translation
"le drugstore" --> the boutique
"le movie" --> the cinema
All entries in the table were words being borrowed into the French language, paired with a prefectly good English word that "just happened" to have been borrowed from French. Hilarious!
Xenophon
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heh, i would have loved to see that article... sounds quite brilliant. i doubt the Immortels would find it funny though. you understand, they take the defense of the glorious french language
*very* *seriously*.
