"In an attempt to rekindle love for the French language among the youth, France’s junior minister for cooperation and Francophonie awarded six students on Tuesday for their entries to ‘Francomot’, an online students-only competition to find the ideal replacements for popular English words in everyday French.
Alain Joyandet launched the competition in January to try and find a way of getting young French people to give up their penchant for tainting ‘the language of Molière’ with words like “buzz”, “chat”, “talk”, “tuning” and “newsletter". Too many Anglicisms have entered our everyday life in France,” bemoaned Joyandet in his prize-giving speech on Tuesday."
Fact: the French language is the 14th most widely spoken language, English being the 3rd.
Words replaced:
Chat- “eblabla” and “tchatche”
Tuning, as in tuning cars-“bolidage”
Newsletter-“infolettre”
Talk- “débat”
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