Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:15:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <19981226111515.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 11:36:11AM %2B0000 References: <Your <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com>
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On Friday, 25 December 1998 at 11:36:11 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Brett Glass wrote: >> >> At 12:41 PM 12/24/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> >>> Chief? I don't know about that. But the language is "Franglais", and >>> the thus-named column in Punch Magazine was my first introduction to >>> the concept. >> >> I think that frustrated Frenchmen (and French teachers) were calling >> it "Franglish" long before Punch came out with the column. My first >> French teacher (who was in her 60's or 70's when I had her in elementary >> school in the 1960's) says that they called it that when she was little. > > FWIW, I've always known it as Franglais. I rather suspect that the the > case is that English speakers call it Franglais and French speakers call > it Franglish. Just by chance, I was reading an article in the Encyclopędia Britannica which referred to Franglais yesterday. > In France they have a law that says that all advertising must be in > French, which creates some rather strange anomalies e.g. English and > American schools in France must advertise (presumably for English > speaking pupils) in French :-/. They also made it a condition of > allowing Disney to build EuroDisney in France that the primary language > there is French. Now what's the French for French Fries..... Frites. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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