The Académie is much more au fait with modern French than you think it is. This communication, from 2001, on the future of the French language for example http

The Académie is much more au fait with modern French than you think it is. This communication, from 2001, on the future of the French language for example http://www.academie-francaise.fr/lavenir-de-la-langue-francaise http://www.academie-francaise.fr/lavenir-de-la-langue-franca... talks at length about verlan. Just to translate a small excerpt: A language that stays still is a dying language. Ours is enriching in proportions never seen before. What the 21th century will bring us is verlan. It would be useless to fight it, as oral language has always preceded written language. I think the Académie is much more competent than many people here think it is.