Hm I'd always thought the disdain of the French was of more distant vintage, say from the 50s to the 80s somewhere. I seem to remember the epithet "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkies" from the Movie Gremlins.
Might have been in response to some postwar issue or other... may even have been in response to France's own Vietnam debacle.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Might have been in response to some postwar issue or other... may even have been in response to France's own Vietnam debacle.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll