It's the Franglais wordplay challenge!

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

So what is Franglais Wordplay?

Basically – it's mixing a French word and an English word together to help explain France.

For example: What's the name for the unwritten rules of breaking bread with the French? Baguettiquette, of course.

Expect laughs, groans, and creativity as three journalists present five new examples of "Franglais wordplay" that they've made up.

And we even have judges to determine the winner… what's your favourite?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good morning, Panham, and you're listening to the Earful Tower.
0:04.1	Today we've got a special show for you.
0:06.0	We've got a show entirely based on wordplay, and we're talking about Frongley wordplay.
0:10.9	That's where we're mixing French and English.
0:13.0	Hereful Tower with Oliver G.
0:18.2	But more on that in a second.
0:19.4	First, I'd like to introduce you to my guest for the week.
0:21.7	We've got Ben McPartland, the editor of the local France.
0:24.6	Hello, Ben.
0:25.2	Hello.
0:25.8	How are you doing?
0:26.5	Fine, thank you.
0:27.0	Welcome to the show.
0:28.1	Thank you.
0:28.5	Thanks for having me.
0:29.1	And sitting beside you is Sam Davies journalist who's called Parasome for 10 years, I believe.
0:34.1	That's correct. And describes himself as a jaded Parisian?
0:38.3	That's incorrect.
0:41.1	That was a title that was given to me.
0:42.6	And why did they call you that?
0:43.4	And who called you that?
0:44.8	You look jaded, to be fair.
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