Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Mid-century: TV and science ·1959
Franglais
Français anglais
- Meaning
- French heavily mixed with English loanwords.
- Source words
- Français + anglais
- Coined by
- Max Rat (Étienne Gilson?)
- Year
- 1959
Background
Popularised by René Étiemble's 1964 book *Parlez-vous franglais?* — a cultural complaint about Anglicisation. Unlike *Spanglish*, the term is usually pejorative and culturally freighted with the Académie française's purist mission.
Mid-century: TV and science
Two engines dominated: television (sitcom, televangelist) and post-war big science (pulsar, transistor). Many mid-century coinages came from scientific style sheets and industry journals.
Two words, one coinage.
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