Le franglais
Subtitle: forbidden English, forbidden American - law,politics and language in contemporary France
By: Philip Thody.
Publisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J; Athlone
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Description: A study of the attempt by French politicians to use the law to forbid the use of words of English and American origin. Classifies some of these words and lists expressions in current use in America and England which are particularly difficult to render in French, comparing these with some equally untranslatable French turns of speech.