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Twenty-five years ago, the French scholar René Etiemble launched his now classic Parlez-vous franglais ? It was the cri de coeur of a single-minded patriot beset by the idea that the purity of his mother tongue was being corrupted by the Anglo-maniac leanings of his countrymen.
As in Etiemble's days, they say smoking for `dinner jacket' and slip for `underpants.
Etiemble would probably have warmed more readily to entires which in no way derive from an English model, like logiciel for `software,' axénique (`without foreign matter') for `germfree,' or suramplificateur for `booster.
However, Etiemble's appeal caught on with the powers that were.
All this seems a far cry from the uncompromising overhaul Etiemble must have hoped for.