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To: RegulatorCountry

Yeah, I wondered if this was such a case. There is tremendous irony in having a movement in France which is seeking to promote French sovereignty and national identity but ends up using an frenchified English word to describe it. The language police must be shaking their heads.


8 posted on 12/26/2016 12:50:21 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s a very evocative neologism and I don’t blame them for coat-tailing their own movement onto it, as the sentiments are largely the same.


9 posted on 12/26/2016 12:53:00 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: ClearCase_guy
There is tremendous irony in having a movement in France which is seeking to promote French sovereignty and national identity but ends up using an frenchified English word to describe it.

I wonder if they've ever borrowed one of the ~30% of English words that had been borrowed from French.

Now that would be irony.

12 posted on 12/26/2016 1:30:42 PM PST by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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