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Example sentences for: francophone
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In Quebec, soft separatists are those who simply seek ever more cultural and political autonomy for the Francophone province, whereas hard separatists demand outright sovereignty.
Until recently, Belgian politics were dominated by an aging Francophone aristocracy, whose wealth was secured by Wallonian mines.
A young CBC editor assured me that language was a political issue only for the older generation in the city, that the young people, Anglophone and Francophone alike, were all pretty much bilingual and were generally bemused by all the squabbling.
As Martyn Ecott cleverly demonstrates, francophone purists have reason for alarm; the flow, absolute flood of vocabulary from French into English, once resulting in a kind of hybridization, has lately been somewhat reversed, depositing in the elegant French language such grotesque neologisms as un pin's or hip hop.
But perhaps the francophone purist does not know how lucky he is.
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