> In the UK, it's just as fashionable and pretty much always has been to borrow words and phrases from other more exotic languages.
French is definitely the language of choice for pretentious twits who like to do this.
French is definitely the language of choice for pretentious twits who like to do this.
It's always been a thing in our family, in my childhood it was Kswahili and French, the former because of my parents history and the later because of family holidays en France. After German/Russian/Latvian exchange students stayed with us there would be other phrases.
Nowadays I drop the odd "privyet" (RU), or "ca va?" (FR), or "<signing>" (BSL) but it's mostly domestically, sometimes that leaks in to the public arena ... does it offend?
Perhaps people aren't showing off but just doing something they think is fun.