Example sentences for: franglais

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

  • 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.

  • In this calculatedly selective text I count only a few more Franglais words or morphemes, forty-four, than English morphemes originally, in most cases centuries ago, borrowed from French, forty by my count.

  • The book became enormously popular, and the term Franglais entered the world's dictionaries.

  • However, of the sixty-six words in the closing paragraph of the article, where the language is not artificially loaded, I find seven words derived from French, including Académie , which is French, but not a single word of Franglais, nor would any Franglais expression appear in the paragraph were it translated into French.

  • Here is a copy of Martyn Ecott's little story, with the Franglais expressions left in italics but with the English morphemes originally borrowed from French underlined in the mainly English text.


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