Example sentences for: franglais

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

  • Franglais includes such classics as hot-dog steamé all dressed , and a rock music review which declared that a group's appeal was to male white trash de vieille souche.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • Dictionnaire de Franglais


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