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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 179 points 7 months ago

Québec has language laws that prevent businesses from using English in their advertising among other things, and some controversial rulings have come from it. One such ruling was the use of "le week-end". Québec was punishing businesses who used this term instead of "la fin de semaine". There was an interview done with an official from the language police where the interviewer had a dictionary from France which showed "le week-end" is proper French. The Québec official said "France doesn't decide what words are French. We do."

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 33 points 7 months ago

L'Académie française disagrees

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Prescriptivist jerks. Let's all dress up in $50,000 robes, call ourselves immortals, and pretend that we can control language.

[-] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

L'académie française deez nuts

[-] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 7 months ago

Oh please. There isn't a single linguist in the Académie Française.

The Académie Française is to the French language what a group of former weathermen is to climatology.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Honnêtement, tu donnes un peu trop de crédibilité à l'Académie française dans ta comparaison.

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