"The French language has got rid of its academic straitjacket"
.
It is with these words that Bernard Cerquiligni, linguistics professor and author of
Enrich-vous: parlez francophone!
(Larousse, 2016), highlights the liveliness of French outside our country.
Spoken by more than 300 million speakers around the world, according to the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), our language is rich in words specific to each country where it is deployed.
This
"vigorous flowering"
, as the author poetically calls it, offers us
"an immense and shimmering vocabulary"
.
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Take the example of verbs.
In Francophonie, it gets rid of the sophisticated finery of the benchmark French.
He
"gets straight to the point
.
"
“Take a nap”
becomes
“nap”
.
"Playing belote"
turns into
"beloter"
.
And
“to be proud”
is simplified to
“to be proud”
.
Are not these French-speaking formulas tasty?
The editorial team invites you to rediscover these words and expressions that come to us from elsewhere, and enrich our language.
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