Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Madame or Mademoiselle?

From a France 24 column on the word war in France:

But reading the comments below the poll, it’s easy to see that many eager participants had failed to grasp the concept before offering their opinion. “We are not going to go through centuries of beautiful French literature replacing the word Mademoiselle with Madame!” argues one man. Another asks if “young man” will be banned too. “These feminists have psychological problems,” says another, followed by the comment “But Mademoiselle is such a lovely word!”

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