&gt; But in practice, what twisted collective mind could come up and stay with &quot;Qu&#x27;est ce que c&#x27;est ?&quot; (What is it ?) ? That monster literally translate to &quot;What is this that it is ?&quot;.<p>The same one who came up with &quot;Au jour d&#x27;aujourd&#x27;hui&quot;. And &quot;sociétal&quot; in place of &quot;social&quot;. The usage of any given language is bound to evolve over time into such... monsters.<p>Sarcasm apart, french is indeed a difficult language to learn (as a native and as foreigner) according to my PhD linguist friend but the movie english, the book english and the internet english is a poor subset of english. It&#x27;s a simple english like the basic english everyone speak around the world.