Date:  Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:47:00 CDT

From:  Beth Lee Simon <BLSIMON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MACC.WISC.EDU>

Subject: Sports vocabulary and the French lexicon



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Subject: Re: You want an example of power?



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Somebody in France (a committee of the Academie Francaise?) used to

publish an anual list of foreign words that were to be, or especially were

not to be, allowed into French.

 My favourite was one that tried to address the mounting interest in

baseball in France. Instead of "le catcher," for example, loyal French

people were enjoined to say "L'attrapeur des balles..."