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Doesn’t France have their like, organization which defines what officially valid french is?
by drdeca 5y ago
Doesn’t France have their like, organization which defines what officially valid french is?
- School-Cotton 5y agoIn theory yes, but their decisions have virtually zero influence on real-world speech.
- hk__2 5y agoIt used to be, but nowadays the organization only claims to "observe" how the language evolves instead of deciding what’s valid and what’s not. Also, France doesn’t have the monopoly of French: 80% of French speakers are outside France; the largest French-speaking city of the world is Kinshasa, in Democratic Republic of the Congo.