Playboy After Hours

Playboy After HoursWhen we were in Paris recently, the Office du Vocabulaire Franc,ais solicited our signature on a petition to drum the barbaric term le parking out of the French language. This move stemmed from no dislike of motorists: it was merely the Office's opening gun in a campaign to root out all "gaudy and useless anglicisms" – a campaign that, it seems to us, is foredoomed because of the extent to which anglicisms have already permeated the noble lingo of Racine and Voltaire...