Re: meaning of tingo

Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

benlizross wrote:

What you could do, though, is point out that this is part of a much
larger pattern of creating French alternatives to avoid borrowing from
English.

I'm hard pressed to come up with many modern examples. This is a
language that has officially naturalized "cédérom" (yes, believe
it).

Did you miss the alleged hilarity of the (also largely alleged)
"émail" vs. "courriel" debate?

Des
liked courriel even before the glorious coinage of "pourriel" for spam

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