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Originally Posted by TGS
Just watched a TV programme about parkour - freerunning. Strange how such a horrible word of French origin can come to be universally accepted.
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And another illustration of exactly what less-use
isn't.
Parkour is "a non-competitive, physical discipline
of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible." Again, the name for the concept comes from a foreign language because it is the culture that introduced the concept. Which is the utterly natural way that new words are introduced into a language. But
the French did not invent the electronic book reader. Which invalidates the analogy utterly.