Franglais
Sunday February 3, 2008
Salut tout le monde. Un abonné vigilant* m'a envoyé un article que j'aimerais partager avec vous : Au revoir Mister Franglais. Miles Kington, le monsieur qui a inventé le mot franglais, vient de mourir.
Mes premières pensées en lisant cet article ont été « mais pourquoi ne connais-je ce monsieur, et pourquoi n'ai-je pas ses livres ? »
Bon, lisez l'article et dites-nous ce que vous en pensez. Et vous pouvez aussi partager vos exemples préférés de franglais.
D'autres infos : Franglais
*Dave Barry parle souvent de ses « alert readers » qui lui envoient des articles intéressants, donc j'ai inventé un titre pour les miens.
English translation
Mes premières pensées en lisant cet article ont été « mais pourquoi ne connais-je ce monsieur, et pourquoi n'ai-je pas ses livres ? »
Bon, lisez l'article et dites-nous ce que vous en pensez. Et vous pouvez aussi partager vos exemples préférés de franglais.
D'autres infos : Franglais
*Dave Barry parle souvent de ses « alert readers » qui lui envoient des articles intéressants, donc j'ai inventé un titre pour les miens.
English translation
Comments
LOL, that’s one of the funniest things I’ve read in ages and it’s soooo true!!! (franglais was the only language spoken in the first 6 months of my relationship too).
Laura, I’d be really interested to hear when you move to France what level of penetration you find English has had (apart from le weekend, fun is another example I really didn’t expect).
Salut Laura,
J’aime bien le nouveaux facon de votre courriel, et je suis ravi d’apprendre que vous avez propose a vos abonees qui vivent en France d’avoir une reunion dans l’avenir. Moi, j’habite en Angleterre et je suis tres enteresse a vous joindre pour cette reunion ou tout le monde parle en Francais. Je suis dans l’attente de renseigner plus de details.
Merci d’avance.
Adriana
Everyday I hear Franglais in action. My husband is Quebeçoise, and it’s entirely too funny to hear him talk to colleagues. He’s an IT guy and there is a lot of Franglais in that line of work. What’s even more amusing is that he will be speaking very fast in French then spit out an English word slowly, and speed right back along in French. Makes me chuckle everytime I hear it. Franglais is how my husband and I communicate, although his English is very good, until I have better mastery over French.
i’ve seen “no-life” used in french blogs or is it blagues. ESPN was using “a la” alot to make comparisons. Of course i think its more correct to say “a la sauce” in french to make comparisons…also with the idea of french turning into frangalis, in old french books they often sprinkled in latin nowadays they use american english, tomorrow probably frinois.
Salut Laura,
j’aime bien cet article….parce-que…thats how i speak in my french class LOL…c’est magnifique le franglais pour nous qui vivre au pays anglophone, et essaie d’apprend la langue francais….. notice all my mistakes….
Speaking of Dave Barry, he wrote a column about “franglais” several years ago that literally made me laugh till I had tears in my eyes. If I can find a copy of it I will post it. Laura, I absolutely love your webpage and it has been so helpful. Good luck on your upcoming move to France!
http://www3.uakron.edu/modlang/french/dave-barry-france.pdf
Here is the link to the columns by Dave Barry. I promise you will laugh!
My favourite Miles Kington Franglais is his new motto for the French Navy:
“A l’eau! C’est l’heure!”
If you are English and of a certain age this is is funny enough to make you lie down on the floor and scream until you pass out, but it’s pretty funny anyway (say it quickly).
Kim - merci bien !
We lived 3 years in Suisse Romande (french-speaking Switzerland). My kids (and I) spoke alot of franglais. In fact, my son learned french and english the first time at the same time (he was 20 months). He spoke very nasal engish and no one outside of the family understood his english (his french pronounciations were very good). He even boasted an 8 month ENGLISH speech delay for a while. I used to say he spoke frenglish. I had no idea that there was actually a term for all of this (franglais).
We are back in the USA now, and of course his english is improving. I have both my kids in french classes at Language Stars. What a great concept. Hopefully we’ll continue to at least speak franglais!