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February 3, 2006
Un «blog»? - sacre bleu!
The Internet seems finally to have worn down the official French insistence on inventing "French" words for new(ish) things named by pesky English words that infiltrate French culture, "le weekend," par example. I had not been to the Le Monde website before tonight, when I noticed that the menu headings included, among "actualités" et "perspectives", "blogs" and "chats," (which did not refer to felines), "newsletters," and - most strangely for me - "Le Desk," which seems to be a kind of web portal to extra online content. I didn't cough up the € to see. Since not too long ago one could be fined for writing "le parking," do these words in Le Monde mean the French grammarians have given up?
Posted by johnn at February 3, 2006 12:29 AM
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