Mar 5, 2004 17:22
20 yrs ago
French term

francitude

French to English Art/Literary Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. television
In a television programme about becoming a French citizen and all the problems people come across. Here's the context:

"L’occasion d’un portrait croisé entre une administration qui détermine ce « qu’être français » veut dire et les phantasmes de ceux qui souhaitent le devenir ou le sont devenus. Un voyage en « francitude », dans l’inconscient collectif français, pour nous étonner, nous aussi, d’être ce que nous sommes devenus"

Proposed translations

+1
3 mins
Selected

francitude (with explanation)

I'd leave it as it (with an explanation in brackets) - it works just as well in English.
Peer comment(s):

agree Mihaela Sinca
8 mins
agree Aisha Maniar
26 mins
disagree Richard Nice : No one seems yet to have realized that it is, surely, not based on "attitude" but on Senghor's "négritude"
3 hrs
neutral Gabrielle Leyden : neologism modeled after "négritude"
4 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Very difficult one! I never like leaving a French word in an English text as I'm always afraid it looks like "don't know what to put here so when in doubt leave the French word". Here I really don't think there was any choice. Thank you all for your advice and very interesting comments."
+7
3 mins

Frenchness

considering it is a neologism, there is hardly an English word for this. This word is composed of French and attitude hence I would probably use the word Frenchness
Peer comment(s):

agree Tom Bishop : I can't find "francitude" in my Larousse, so wonder whether they don't mean "francité": Frenchness
2 mins
as mentionned, it is a neologism (or a barbarism as I don't think it will ever get into the Larousse) and the Brits already speak of Englishness or Irishness, so why not Frenchness? lol
agree Mihaela Sinca
8 mins
cheers
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
18 mins
cheers
agree mami_ladka
43 mins
cheers
agree Laurel Porter (X) : Or even "Frenchiness", if you want to echo the arch tone of the original (yecch).
1 hr
lol, I believe this one would be worth you submitting this answer
agree Amandine (X)
2 hrs
cheers
agree roneill : I think this works best
1 day 20 hrs
cheers.
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-1
37 mins

the French attitude

or French consciousness
Peer comment(s):

disagree Richard Nice : No one seems yet to have realized that it is, surely, not based on "attitude" but on Senghor's "négritude"
3 hrs
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2 hrs

what it means to be French

"a journey into the Gallic nature/psyche"
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