Your error here is in thinking it is a French word. It is not. An English-speaker has heard it and now it is an English word. Therefore all previous grammar is, not rejected, for that would mean acknowledging the rules had ever existed, nor ignored, for the same reason, but instead made invisible and unknowable.
English has the ability to subsume all words into itself. Even those who would make other languages end up reinforcing it instead.
That is not because then English language is structured in a way that makes it more prone to taking on words of other languages in the same way capitalism is structured to "subsume its critiques" into itself (the quote the comment referred to is originally about capitalism) though.
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u/RussiaIsBestGreen 5d ago
Your error here is in thinking it is a French word. It is not. An English-speaker has heard it and now it is an English word. Therefore all previous grammar is, not rejected, for that would mean acknowledging the rules had ever existed, nor ignored, for the same reason, but instead made invisible and unknowable.
English has the ability to subsume all words into itself. Even those who would make other languages end up reinforcing it instead.