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#171292 - 18/07/2003 10:06 Is this a backlash from the 'American Fries'?
TheRhino
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#171293 - 18/07/2003 10:15 Re: Is this a backlash from the 'American Fries'? [Re: TheRhino]
ashmoore
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Loc: TX
No,
The french also have policies in place to ensure a certain level of "frenchness" to all tv and radio stations. Music radio has to play a preset percentage of french language music, regardless of quality.
They want to ensure that the language is not polluted by any other country.

A sad attempt at legislating what people can say.
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#171294 - 18/07/2003 10:25 Re: Is this a backlash from the 'American Fries'? [Re: TheRhino]
Dignan
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Registered: 08/03/2000
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Maybe they're mad that it was their word to begin with

From Dictionary.com:
Oddly enough, the word `emailed' is actually listed in the OED;
it means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a
net or open work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably
derived from French `e'maille'' (enameled) and related to Old French
`emmailleu"re' (network). A French correspondent tells us that in
modern French, `email' is a hard enamel obtained by heating special
paints in a furnace; an `emailleur' (no final e) is a craftsman who
makes email (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry)
and cooks them in a furnace).
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