Example sentences for: franglais

How can you use “franglais” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dictionnaire de Franglais

  • We are, of course, in the magical domain of Franglais, where it is virtually impossible to tell whether the given definitions accurately represent the way English words and phrases are employed by the French or merely reflect one person's valiant but ill-founded guesswork: in other words, whether such massive incomprehension is individual or collective.

  • Indeed, Mr. Mason's call to purify English of Germanic influences reminds one of the French hysteria over “Franglais,” or of the more sinister years in this century when a “Telefon” become a “Fernsprecher,” a “Radio” become a “Rundfunk,” and so ordinary a personage as Mama became a Fricka-like “Mutti.”

  • I was amused and bemused by Martyn Ecott's The Franglais Blues [XX, 3].

  • Examples of franglais which they find particularly monstrous are, I hear, to be condemned to a newly created “Musée des horreurs.”


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