Why do some writers insert French words in the middle of English

To make this barbaric orc tongue at least somewhat less jarring.

i always wondered the same, giving it random explanations, until i learned the language and... well, it stopped seeming excessive or unnecessary just to fit perfectly in the english flow. but i think it remains a bit elitist cause, even if you are explained what it means, it isnt fully grasped unless you know the expression/word in its context.

i think it is a vestige from the time where french was the intellectual language of europe and every cultured man knew it.

>>9354128
Yeah man. Dumas does this a lot too, man. Fucking sang froid and shit, man.

Because not everyone is a monolingual mongoloid. Most writers in english know at least one romance language and enjoy adorning their prose with latin expressions

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>>9354128
Because French are the true masterace.

Back to your cuckshed.

Russians do it too, it is because of the Époque des lumières.

Everyone wanted to be a french in this time, so it became a trend to speak french to look more cultured.

If you want a good book on this :
Quand l'europe parlais français - Marc Fumaroli

>>9354128
To convey an idea better? Every bilingüal knows this

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>>9354128
Napoleon.

Same reason Latin spread through their empire and the same reason it's English now.

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Why do English speakers appropriate Latin words and use/pronounce them as if they were actually English words? It makes me cringe so much.

>>9354128

There's a certain je ne sais quoi to it, it shows raffinement.

>>9354964
Can i save this picture?

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>>9355501
I pillaged it from /his/, you can have it with pleasure anon.

Ask Dostoevsky

>>9354128
Because French is Latin for the masses.

>>9355156
"My name is ROME Boss-For-AHM-Us Hyrule."

Holy shit I raged so hard at this in Breath of the Wild. They couldn't be assed to get even the King's name right.

>>9354128
because our languages share like 40% of vocab anyways so why not

>>9354964
>Quand l'europe parlais français - Marc Fumaroli
for all the dumb americans in this thread, this is published in english by nyrb as When the World Spoke French

>>9354128
The same reason English speakers use the word schadenfreude.