Example sentences for: franglais

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

  • *On the other hand, this is not Franglais, either: according to Petit Robert it has been standard French since 1782.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dictionnaire de Franglais


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