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What (who) is Franglais - definition
MIX OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
Fringlish; Frenglish; Franglish; Franglois
![Map of the [[English Channel]], a natural barrier between French- and English-speaking communities](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carte de la Manche.png?width=200 "Map of the [[English Channel]], a natural barrier between French- and English-speaking communities")
![A typical shopping centre in [[La Rochelle]], in western [[France]] shows many examples of the English language](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Enseignes La Rochelle.jpg?width=200 "A typical shopping centre in [[La Rochelle]], in western [[France]] shows many examples of the English language")
franglais
A combination of French and English words and grammar. Often used when an English-speaker is trying to speak French and doesn't know a French word needed to complete the sentence. Or, using English sentence structure when composing a sentence in French..
Her French failed her, so she resorted to franglais.
Her French failed her, so she resorted to franglais.
franglais
['fr?franglaisgle?]
¦ noun a blend of French and English, either French that makes excessive use of English expressions, or unidiomatic French spoken by an English person.
Origin
1960s: coined in Fr., from a blend of francais 'French' and anglais 'English'.
Franglais
Franglais (; also Frenglish ) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakersLe petit Robert and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French () and English ().
Wikipedia
Franglais
Franglais (French: [fʁɑ̃ɡlɛ]; also Frenglish ) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais).
Examples of use of Franglais
1. It even has to fight the tide of Franglais‘‘ at home – the use of English terms in the language of Moliere itself.
2. In France, despite the best efforts of the Academie Francaise to root out Franglais, people still talk about their plans for le weekend.‘‘ And consider all those commercials in Spanish, a regular feature now on American airwaves.
3. In France, despite the best efforts of the Academie Francaise to root out Franglais, people still talk about their plans for "le weekend." And consider all those commercials in Spanish, a regular feature now on American airwaves.
4. He said he had also suffered abuse in print, in the in–house journals Blindside and The Standard, where he said he became known as "Mr Franglais". In "a complete fabrication", he said, a colleague wrote that he had visited his home and found him heading off to a Gay Pride procession wearing skin–tight lycra cycling shorts.
5. The language used in–house restaurants and cafeterias where European civil servants meet is very much a "franglais"–type mix Alun Hotchkiss, Luxembourg Europe diary: Your views A friend and colleague who is annoyingly fluent in half a dozen languages notices the growth of something he calls "Brussels English". One example he gives is the persistent use of "security" to mean "safety", perhaps because in French and German they are the same word.