It's funny how words change. Some time ago, I was walking with headphones in your ears. Some kids Cross told me 'oh look, it has a walkman! "Is at this precise moment that struck me the victory without sharing the word player. I remember not so long ago, if you wanted to listen to music in the street, they put a cassette into his Walkman and presto! was gone, there was superbranché in the street with our pants superserré (it was the punk era if I remember correctly). Defenders of the French language * rose up and offered another word player. Complete failure, everyone has persisted in using walkman, you can not go against the will of the people. Ty and now not only 15 or 20 years later, the player is lifted from the devil while more vauvert nobody believed it gave a good right hook to the chin, a reverse kick that poor walkman, and the case was settled. What I do not know is why he brought with him the jeans superserré it could very well remain in the dustbin of history, there was very good.
Another issue to make the agenda of the next meeting of the club champions of the French language, the verb is cleaner. I wonder what has been going through the head of the guy who invented it, one. There was a verb clean, that was not bad, expressing the idea of just cleaning. Well no, there is a guy who wanted to be more-than-cool-me-you-die, which has said it was difficult to fashion (I almost wrote fashion), and clean it was not enough class, so he invented a neologism that is absolutely worthless. I do not invent, I heard several people use it, not necessarily people who know and who live in the same place. It reminds me a list that Léandri made in a volume of his encyclopedia of the absurd . This is a list of English words used in French, but that does not exist in English. Tennis does not exist, tennisplayer. Parking either, because it's park. Camping either, is I do not know what. Anyway will see, it's fun.
I'll finish with a remark that I made recently. Before, the sneakers were called tennis because of the popularity of the sport of the same name, I guess. And then, gradually, they were called basketball for the reasons you seek alone. Neither has won so far, it seems. Expect when the golf there will.
* I do not know why, I always imagine the "defenders of the French language" like old fogies, clad in black suits or uniforms, who lament about their moral values that go to hell -water. The strangest thing is that I do not need this fight, now I transform myself into an old fogy.