{"id":36,"date":"2003-03-21T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2003-03-20T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-03-21T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2003-03-20T20:04:09","slug":"english-sans-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/english-sans-french\/","title":{"rendered":"English sans French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are boycotting French wine and French cheese. Foods such as french fries and french toast have been changed to &#8220;freedom fries&#8221; and &#8220;freedom toast&#8221;, this silly but ok let&#8217;s admit we boycott french (I&#8217;m!) so why not removing all the french words from english.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Franco-American <S>dispute<\/S> <I>falling out<\/I> over the best <S>approach<\/S> <I>way<\/I> to <S>disarming Iraq<\/S> <I>take away Iraq&#8217;s weapons<\/I> has resulted in perhaps the highest <S>level of<\/S> anti-French feeling in the United <S>States<\/S> <I>Lands<\/I> since 1763.<\/p>\n<p><P>A French-owned <S>hotel<\/S> <I>innkeeping<\/I> firm, Accor, has taken down the <S>tricolor<\/S> <I>three-hued flag<\/I>. In the House of <S>Representatives<\/S> <I>Burghers<\/I>, the <S>chairman<\/S> <I>leader <\/I>of the <S>Committee<\/S> <I>Body <\/I>on <S>Administration<\/S> <I>Running Things<\/I> has <S>renamed<\/S> <I>named anew <\/I>French fries &#8220;freedom fries&#8221; and French toast &#8220;freedom toast&#8221; in House <S>restaurants<\/S> <I>eating rooms<\/I>.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>To which the <S>question<\/S> <I>asking<\/I> arises: Why stop with Evian, Total gasoline, and the Concorde (<S>just<\/S> <I>only<\/I> the Air France flights)? Let&#8217;s get to the heart of the <S>matter<\/S> <I>thing<\/I>: A <S>huge<\/S> <I>big<\/I> percentage of the words in <S>modern<\/S> <I>today&#8217;s<\/I> English are of &#8211; gasp! &#8211; French <S>origin<\/S> <I>beginnings<\/I>. What if, as a result of the <S>current diplomatic dispute<\/S> <I>today&#8217;s falling out between lands<\/I>, the French <S>demand<\/S> <I>ask for<\/I> their words back? We could all be linguistic <S>hostages<\/S> <I>captives<\/I>.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>It is time for English-speaking <S>peoples<\/S> <I>folk<\/I> to throw off this cultural <S>imperialism<\/S> <I>lording-it-over-others<\/I> and <S>declare<\/S> <I>say<\/I> our linguistic freedom. It is time to <S>purify<\/S> <I>clean<\/I> the English <S>language<\/S> <I>tongue<\/I>. It will take some <S>sacrifices<\/S> <I>hardship<\/I> on everyone&#8217;s part to get used to the new <S>parlance<\/S> <I>speech<\/I>. But think of the <S>satisfaction<\/S> <I>warm feeling inside<\/I> on the day we <S>are all able to<\/S> <I>can all<\/I> stare the <I>Acad&#233;mie Fran&#231;aise<\/I> in the eye and say without fear of <S>reprisal<\/S> <I>injury<\/I>: &#8220;<I>Sumer is icumen in<\/I>&#8230;.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What about removing all french words from english?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localhost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}