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It seems somewhat out of linguistic character for them to use the English-"shrink"-based portmanteau, but hopefully there's a universal commonality (especially
by BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
It seems somewhat out of linguistic character for them to use the English-"shrink"-based portmanteau, but hopefully there's a universal commonality (especially coupled with the hashtag format) that makes this move more effective.
- jjgreen 3y agoNot at all, contemporary French is stuffed with Englishisms, the regular -er verb liker (to like on Facebook) being one of my favourites.
- inductive_magic 3y agoIs "Englishism" slang? The term I know is "anglicism"
- jjgreen 3y agoSlangy (like liker), I prefer it since it's obvious what it means and it does not get confused with the Anglican Church.
- inductive_magic 3y agoIt means something different than you're insinuating: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/englishism https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/english...
- jjgreen 3y agoIt also means something different [1], English is a huge unmanaged language, for a word with a possible interpretation, there will be a reference to that meaning in a dictionary somewhere. [1] https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/englishism https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almana...
- kfoley 3y agoI think French people, especially younger ones, are much more open to the use of English than stereotypes suggest. My favorite example is the French name for the movie "The Hangover", which is "Very Bad Trip". Not "Very Bad Trip" translated into French, but the exact English.
- SuchAnonMuchWow 3y agoNote that "bad trip" is the french word for a (drugs related) bad trip, like "weekend" is the french word for weekend. So that explain a bit the name of the movie.
- tech-historian 3y agoThis phenomenon generally cracks me up, where you see random (to me) english phrases sprinkled throughout foreign languages. SNL leaned into this, in a skit with Pedro Pascal speaking spanish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmlfHi9Ll4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmlfHi9Ll4
- selimthegrim 3y agoThe counterpart to this is of course https://youtu.be/nWMp_z7Jnxw https://youtu.be/nWMp_z7Jnxw
- tech-historian 3y agoBrilliant! I hadn't seen that one, thank you!
- joe91 3y agoMy Russian girlfriend did not even know that кринж (cringe) was an English word. Not only that, it has been imported as an adjective just like its use in English internet slang (e.g. that's cringe). Then a verb was formed from that: кринжевать.
- hotnfresh 3y agoThe -tion ending is theirs anyway, and they love certain types of English words. They especially love -ing endings and will stick them on when it wouldn’t make sense in English. Ever notice the French for shampoo on also-sold-in-Canada shampoo bottles in the US? Shampooing. As a noun. And that’s not some Quebecois thing, it’s French French. Maybe they also like the “sh-“, and that made “shrinkflation” appealing. They also use “parking”. “Le parking”. As in parking lot. Again, as a noun. [edit] Shampooing is said “sham-pwan”, more or less, hitting the “n” rather softly, but parking is spoken almost the same as in English.
- dustincoates 3y agoMeanwhile, you have smoking and brushing, which are not at all the same as what they are in English. (Tuxedo and blow dry, respectively.)