The rules of French are not really legally defined; that’s a common misconception. Yeah, there is a state-funded cultural organization in France called the Acad

The rules of French are not really legally defined; that’s a common misconception. Yeah, there is a state-funded cultural organization in France called the Académie française that claims that regulating the language is part of its mandate, but its “decisions” have no legal effect whatsoever and are widely ignored, even by the government and education system.