[PW] Re: Hypothetical cultural divergence

[Dan Goodman]

Paul Zimmerman wrote:

> 
> Today we see the French struggling very deliberately to resist the influx of 
> loanwords from English, even inventing their own terms to replace them.

Ah, yes.  Not that long ago, the French official in charge of defending 
such pure French words as "biftek" and "redingote" was named Jack Lang.



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