Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!rbutterworth
From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: can.francais
Subject: Re: franglais?  Ench?
Message-ID: <23119@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 89 21:34:24 GMT
References: <89Jan15.194239est.38980@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In fact, for many years there was a trend towards replacing
the original English words with French (or Latinized) forms.

A recent example (in the last 100 years) would be the use of
"-ise" endings instead of the formerly and still correct "-ize".

Most English nouns that have both a common and a fancy name
(e.g. cattle vs. beef, fowl vs. poultry, build vs. construct,
tap vs. faucet, graveyard vs. cemetery, womb vs. uterus,
god vs. deity, drunk vs. intoxicated, room vs. chamber),
are usually examples of English vs. Latin forms.

For many years the public use of many of the original English words
has been completely banned.  e.g. most of the "4-letter" words.
Polite people use only the Latinized forms since the other words
indicate that one is "common" or "vulgar".

How many other languages have been made illegal and had their
use in public punishable under law?

Better yet, in how many places are the people so brain-washed
that they are ashamed to use their native language in countries
that claim that same language as their official language?

The Norman Conquest was definitely that.