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What "use the French language" means is open to interpretation by the civil service, and as GGP said, "the Académie offers recommendations that the civil servic
by leereeves 3y ago
What "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...