Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Académie de la Carpette anglaise, which may be translated as the \"English Doormat Academy\" (the word carpette means both \"rug\" and \"fawner\"), is a French organisation that awards an annual prize to \"members of the French élite who distinguish themselves by relentlessly promoting the domination of the English language over the French language in France and in European institutions.\" Whether admired or despised for its tongue-in-cheek rhetoric, the Academy has captured the attention of many in the French-speaking world who genuinely fear that the growing pervasiveness of English will lead to the decline and ultimate demise of French.The Academy was created in 1999 by a group of four French-language associations. "@en }
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- Académie_de_la_Carpette_anglaise comment "The Académie de la Carpette anglaise, which may be translated as the \"English Doormat Academy\" (the word carpette means both \"rug\" and \"fawner\"), is a French organisation that awards an annual prize to \"members of the French élite who distinguish themselves by relentlessly promoting the domination of the English language over the French language in France and in European institutions.\" Whether admired or despised for its tongue-in-cheek rhetoric, the Academy has captured the attention of many in the French-speaking world who genuinely fear that the growing pervasiveness of English will lead to the decline and ultimate demise of French.The Academy was created in 1999 by a group of four French-language associations. ".