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Yeah, it's such a cliché. Using too many foreign words is such a faux pas, it reveals the bourgeois character of the speaker. No no no, a real connoisseur of th

Yeah, it's such a cliché. Using too many foreign words is such a faux pas, it reveals the bourgeois character of the speaker. No no no, a real connoisseur of the English language won't have such a lassaiz-faire attitude and accept just any fancy word du jour. That would be so gauche indeed. Au contraire I'm blasé at such attempts. The real English entrepreneurial avant-garde clique has so many choices a la carte, so much joi de vivere in this je ne sais qua of a deja vu. Touché

awb 5y ago
Haha! I followed you until you went pure French.
- chrismcb 5y ago
  He never went "pure French"
  - awb 5y ago
    Depends on your perspective I guess. I see your point that they’re all phrases in the English dictionary. From a French perspective though it’s mixed French/English until the end which would be entirely French.
    - ithkuil 5y ago
      The escalation toward "pure french" was intended as an attempt to mirror https://luminusdadon.wordpress.com/2006/05/04/how-english-becomes-german/amp/ https://luminusdadon.wordpress.com/2006/05/04/how-english-be...
      - awb 5y ago
        I remember that from a long time ago. It’s fun to read the last sentence first and have it be unreadable. Then read from the beginning and it’s perfectly readable.
      - skinkestek 5y ago
        16 years ago. And below, a broken banner for "Take back the Web, Get Firefox". Complete with a link to spreadfirefox.com that seems to be broken.
gramie 5y ago
"laissez-faire"* "à la carte"* "so much joi de vivre"* "je ne sais quoi"* "déjà vu"* But well done for so densely packing French loan words (loan phrases?) into a single paragraph!
scubbo 5y ago
Bravo.
tasogare 5y ago
Excellent. One funny thing I've noticed with French EFL speakers of medium proficiency is that they too think all those loanwords from French aren't English words. It's always fun to troll them dropping a en route and look at their reaction.

awb 5y ago

Haha! I followed you until you went pure French.

chrismcb 5y ago
He never went "pure French"
- awb 5y ago
  Depends on your perspective I guess. I see your point that they’re all phrases in the English dictionary. From a French perspective though it’s mixed French/English until the end which would be entirely French.
  - ithkuil 5y ago
    The escalation toward "pure french" was intended as an attempt to mirror https://luminusdadon.wordpress.com/2006/05/04/how-english-becomes-german/amp/ https://luminusdadon.wordpress.com/2006/05/04/how-english-be...
    - awb 5y ago
      I remember that from a long time ago. It’s fun to read the last sentence first and have it be unreadable. Then read from the beginning and it’s perfectly readable.
    - skinkestek 5y ago
      16 years ago. And below, a broken banner for "Take back the Web, Get Firefox". Complete with a link to spreadfirefox.com that seems to be broken.

gramie 5y ago

"laissez-faire"* "à la carte"* "so much joi de vivre"* "je ne sais quoi"* "déjà vu"* But well done for so densely packing French loan words (loan phrases?) into a single paragraph!

scubbo 5y ago

Bravo.

tasogare 5y ago

Excellent. One funny thing I've noticed with French EFL speakers of medium proficiency is that they too think all those loanwords from French aren't English words. It's always fun to troll them dropping a en route and look at their reaction.