Get Me Rewrite: Foreign correspondence
By Cristi Kempf
Foreign words or phrases, even those commonly used in English, can add color or sophistication to your writing — or confuse the heck out of readers.
Case in point from an online sports story:
“The fans give college football its verve, its je ne sais quoi. (Somewhere here there is some combination of Notre Dame and je ne sais quoi that would be most appr…