<text>  French culture minister Felur Pellerin, who has called fro the country to stop blockading English words from entering the French language . France should stop blocking English phrases from entering their language and embrace new words from other nations, the countrys culture minister has said. Fleur Pellerin, who was born in South Korea and also speaks fluent English and German, says the French language is not frozen and that the country should be thankful for English words enriching their lexicon. The governments stance marks a dramatic break from Frances previous rigid defence of its language, especially from English words entering it. Miss Pellerin said: The French language is not frozen. A language is always evolving. Some languages - like English today, or Italian in the past - have been particularly generous in offering hundreds of new words to French. French is not in danger and my responsibility as minister is not to erect ineffective barriers against languages but to give all our citizens the means to make it live on. Current French legislation states that all public advertising is in French or at least includes a translation of non-French terms. There was also a campaign to stop terms such as e-mail challenge and marketing from creeping into the French language. But many French linguists have welcomed the ministers comments. Alain Rey, author of a dictionary on the history of French and a member of a Commission on French Terminology, said attempts to stop the adoption of some commonly used words were ridiculous. He pointed out that the word challenge, for instance, in fact originally came from Old French chalonge before being taken up in English. Passing laws against loan words is to tilt at windmills, Mr Rey said. A woman holds open a copy of the 2015 edition of the French Petit Larousse dictionary. Current French legislation states that all public advertising is in French or at least includes a translation of non-French terms . Miss Pellerins comments come just months after she admitted that she hasnt read a single book over the past two years, despite being appointed culture minister. To add to her embarrassment, she was also unable to say on a TV show which book by Frances Nobel Literature Prize winner Patrick Modiano was her favourite, just minutes after having said she had lunched with the author. Only two weeks beforehand, she had hailed Modiano as representing the influence and vitality of French literature in the eyes of the world. 