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The Académie Française sometimes pushes for the replacement of anglicisms with French neologisms, as was the case with the replacement of "e-mail" or "mail" by
by mlgrinshpun 16y ago
The Académie Française sometimes pushes for the replacement of anglicisms with French neologisms, as was the case with the replacement of "e-mail" or "mail" by "courriel" a few years ago. Sometimes, the government follows suit and mandates that official communications adopt the change.
I suppose that this could be interpreted as 'disallowing "franglais"', but your post is somewhat misleading. The media – newspapers, television, etc. – can say whatever the hell they want to, in whatever language they want to, and remain quite full of anglicisms, including "e-mail."
- zupatol 16y agoThe french did pass a law about using french in official government publications, in all advertisements, in all workplaces, in commercial contracts, in some other commercial communication contexts, in all government-financed schools, and some other contexts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon_Law The french wikipedia page mentions that this law was later substantially watered down by the constitutional council.