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bitwize on Aug 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The French Language and Why We Learn It

Two words: Académie Française, the governmental body which determines what is official "standard" French, and zealously guards the language against loanwords from other languages in an attempt to preserve a purely French French language.

ur-whale on Aug 4, 2018 | [–]

> zealously guards the language

and which everyone in the country blissfully ignores.

r00fus on Aug 4, 2018 | [–]

Yeah, the campaign for "courriel" was such a success!

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