France has begun another attempt to prevent the invasion of English words in its language by creating new words to replace common Anglicisms.
A government agency announced the results of a competition among schoolchildren and students to identify French-sounding terms for 21st-century phenomena.
A report in The Independent said the task was to come up with French replacements for "chat", "talk" and “newsletter” as well as terms for "tuning" – where young motorists ‘pimp up’ their cars and "buzz" to describe an internet craze. More...
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