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That’s not a language purity law, doesn’t ban English loanwords in French, and doesn’t give the Académie Française any legal or political power.
by School-Cotton 3y ago
That’s not a language purity law, doesn’t ban English loanwords in French, and doesn’t give the Académie Française any legal or political power.
- leereeves 3y agoWhat "use the French language" means is open to interpretation by the civil service, and as GGP said, "the Académie offers recommendations that the civil service generally follows".
- School-Cotton 3y agoSure, the Académie is influential, but this thread is in reply to a comment that claims that English words are banned in French which is demonstrably not true. French civil servants use English loanwords like week-end including in official publications, for example: https://dares.travail-emploi.gouv.fr/publication/quelle-contrepartie-salariale-pour-le-travail-le-soir-la-nuit-ou-le-week-end https://dares.travail-emploi.gouv.fr/publication/quelle-cont...