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