@Gargron Calling a streamer a joueur-animateur en direct is brilliant. The French, never cease to amaze and surprise us

@Gargron LMAO WAT?

@Gargron lol possédé

@Gargron When one writes about "language purity", it seems that the #AcademieFrançaise is just being fussy, maybe even snobbish. But if you had written "language consistency" then it would seem much more sensible.

#français

@Gargron

@Gargron If that makes you feel any better, don't worry, nobody takes the Académie seriously. They're a bunch of old fucks who have nothing better to do than create misinformation about linguistics.

It happens every two months or so, they create some bullshit theories or try to reinvent the wheel to attract attention.

@Gargron - There's probably more English jargon in the French financial sector...

@Gargron I am French, and I certify that no French will respect this stupid law 😂. We're good at breaking the law !

@Gargron 😂 Love it when they act Frenchly.

@Gargron i kinda agree

as a spanish speaker, there's too much borrowing from the english, and that can alienate other speakers

i don't know if the solution is banning, maybe too harsh, but making the case to use the language you are indeed using

French, the only language I know of that doesn't call bytes bytes 😂

@Gargron Well that's amusing.

@Gargron Yeah... That's not gonna make any difference, it might be banned from official governmental documents but that's about it. People will still continue to use the English terms every day.

@Gargron Zut alors!

@Gargron if you need legislation to "preserve" a language it's pretty obvious this is because the speakers of that language don't want it preserved in that manner...otherwise they would have done it already....

@Gargron Is it illegal to support that cause? Long live the french language... or Anyother language. long live German, Danish, Netherlandish or Estonish

@Gargron
The Guardian's opinion is plain enough with "the Académie Française" and not bothering with L'.

@Gargron petit pois haw he haw

@Gargron This happens in Canada too 🙄

Shouldn't France be more concerned about preserving its own minority languages that are on the verge of dying out? Apparently, there's a lot of them.

@Gargron France must be a utopia if *this* is the type of problems being addressed with laws

@Gargron Sounds like Macron brand xenophobia and the hyperactive L'Academie Français. Prescriptive linguistics taken to such a degree is a definite sign of authoritarianism, IMO. Especially French. Good gosh, how many language groups and cultures have made up French?

@Gargron have they taken a look at their marketing sector lately?

What online social trend-surfer wouldn't be enthralled to abandon "eSports" for "jeu video de competition"?

(Oh, did I say "online social trend-surfer"? I meant "individu de mode de comportement branché sur l'Internet.")

(Oh, did I say "Internet"? I meant "monde compilé en réseau informatique dans l'abstrait.")

(How every step enriches and enlivens me.)

@Gargron Sounds like what's happening in Quebec, Canada. I've heard a few say that if people in Quebec dislike English so much, they should move to France. Sounds like they'd be in good company.