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From: velu@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: a Query
Message-ID: <2489@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Sep-83 09:42:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  8 09:42:46 1983
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An amusing example of Franglais is 'le jeans'.

'Le jeans' is one  of the words on the Commisoner of State's 
Blak list - as words which are not ''french''. The funny thing
about it is that Jeans is originally from the French, from the Jeaane
cloth (I think...) (sp?) from which sacks and sails were made. It was out of 
this cloth ( a denim... ) that the original Jeans were made. So the French
are not alowing into their language a peace of their own heritage...


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Velu Sinha