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Old July 19th 03, 05:47 PM
Emmanuel.Gustin
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Gooneybird wrote:

: On reflection, one never hears Frenchmen complaining about French words and
: phrases adopted into the English language, does one. A bit of "le standard
: a deux", n'est ce pas? (^-^)))

Well, thanks to William the Conqueror, English is a mixture
of French with the original Germanic Old English, anyway.
It is only natural for the French to make further intrusions.
While 'Franglais' is really very, very ugly.

Emmanuel