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'Franglais' outlawed

Friday 15 April 1994 23:02 BST
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The French Senate has passed a bill to erect barriers around the French language to stop a flood of English words and keep it alive in the technological age, Reuter reports from Paris. The bill will make it illegal to use foreign words in public announcements and compulsory to let French people use their own language in seminars.

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