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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by kstenerud on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:42AM (#19541308)
I think it might have something to do with their role of "protecting France from “brainless Globish” and the “deadly snobbery of Anglo-American,” as a member spat out in a speech last month"
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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by xwolfi on Monday April 01, 2019 @10:15AM (#19543417)
Yeah it bothers a lot of french that “globish” is english-based. I bet you my arm that if the world tried to communicate poorly in french, we would bask in the glory of our beautiful international language :D

My fellow countrymen who think globish is a dumbed down version of english have a point, but that it gave rise to millions able to read english litterature somewhat they cannot deny.

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