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.

  • 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.”


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