&gt; The same one who came up with &quot;Au jour d&#x27;aujourd&#x27;hui&quot;.<p>That one is indeed beyond stupid.
And even &quot;aujourd&#x27;hui&quot; is long and strangely build. Its english counterpart &quot;today&quot; on the other hand couldn&#x27;t be shorter.<p>&gt; but the movie english, the book english and the internet english is a poor subset of english.<p>I&#x27;m confused by your statement. Especially on &#x27;book english&#x27;.
Where else would you find proper, complete English ? Maybe you meant that today&#x27;s litterature is poor ?
And even concerning &#x27;internet english&#x27; I find that in places like HackerNews or Reddit one enjoys a high level (from my limited point of view) of language. And, returning to my point, I find that equivalent people (in this case middle-class higher-educated STEM) use a strinkingly broader lexicon on the english side compared to the french.