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To: ClearCase_guy

The French are very prone to picking up English words and Frenchifying them, much to the chagrin of the French language police and yes, they do have such a thing.


6 posted on 12/26/2016 12:45:56 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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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: RegulatorCountry

So I wonder what they would call Brussels exiting? Name’s been taken already.


18 posted on 12/26/2016 2:49:29 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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