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Originally posted by archer2371
What? You think the French don't try to make anything that sounds remotely English into a French word? The French have been doing something similar to our Freedom Fries stuff. Believe me, I used to take French (tho I didn't continue my study because of this anti-French stuff, my teachers were idiots, I learned almost nothing, even after four years of French classes) and they frown upon "Franglais" and basically looks at anyone who uses somewhat English words with disdain.
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I'm not saying the French are holy (though they would think so
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I'm saying that the changing of "e-mail" has a at least some 'pure-language' background. In addition: you give the impression that the French have been doing that for a long time. (my knowledge of French is minimal). So there was probably no special occasion that started it. Whereas the 'freedom' issue occured over a single disagreement in foreign policy.
The second 'email' comment made by
Jcl, however negates the need for my 'rant' (sorry about that). So I'm leaving the discussion at that.
A side note: In US french classes do you get European-french or Canadian-french? Because the Canadian-french is seriously ancient compared to Eurpopean-french as the french-canadians are language purists like no-one else.
(the reason I'm asking is that "Spanish" classes are often "Mexican" classes. And there are some big differences between Spanish and Mexican too.)