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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.
Dictionnaire de Franglais
*On the other hand, this is not Franglais, either: according to Petit Robert it has been standard French since 1782.
Franglais is a collective phenomenon, like fog or an epidemic, but the person who compiled this volume has made a noteworthy individual contribution, epitomized by his assertion that Union jack means “the different countries composing the British community.”
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.”