{"id":250,"date":"2020-08-10T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/?p=250"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:27:09","slug":"le-franglais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/10\/le-franglais\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Franglais"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Le mot du jour : Le Franglais<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le Franglais is used to describe this weird mix of French and English words commonly used in France. Each time I go back to my country, I discover new ways for French people to use English words in their everyday life.\ud83d\ude42<br>For example, we heard sentences like : &#8220;Plus besoin de downloader, tu peux regarder en streaming&#8221; (no need to download anymore, you can stream it)<br>On the radio, a sports store was telling mothers that their kids would be &#8220;super look\u00e9s&#8221; (very stylish), if only they were wearing their brand of sportswear&#8230;<br>I think it&#8217;s a very French thing to do, as, to my knowledge, French Canadians tend to avoid this kind of mix. For example, they use &#8220;fin de semaine&#8221; (end of the week) when French people use &#8220;le week-end&#8221;<br>The poor English words are not always used accurately, and I feel for the English speaking person wondering why &#8220;les baskets&#8221; are trainers and &#8220;le pressing&#8221; is the dry-cleaner! \ud83d\ude04<br>A little picture taken in France to end this post&#8230; &#8220;Tested on the English&#8221; says the board proudly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4560-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4560-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4560-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4560-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4560-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4560.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le mot du jour : Le Franglais Le Franglais is used to describe this weird mix of French and English words commonly used in France. Each time I go back to my country, I discover new ways for French people to use English words in their everyday life.\ud83d\ude42For example, we heard sentences like : &#8220;Plus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/10\/le-franglais\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le Franglais&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}