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Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Anglophenia? The English language doesn't exist: it's badly pronounced French

 

... And That is only in GB!




OH!!!


Beneath the provocative title and humour, the prominent academic hopes to convey the cross-Channel linguistic tangle since the Norman conquest of 1066 -- and how ridiculous French resistance to "anglicisms" can be.

"You can also see my book as an homage to the English language, which has been able to adopt so many words... Viking, Danish, French, it's astonishing," Cerquiglini said.





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