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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

L'Académie française disagrees

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Prescriptivist jerks. Let's all dress up in $50,000 robes, call ourselves immortals, and pretend that we can control language.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

L'académie française deez nuts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh please. There isn't a single linguist in the Académie Française.

The Académie Française is to the French language what a group of former weathermen is to climatology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Honnêtement, tu donnes un peu trop de crédibilité à l'Académie française dans ta comparaison.