French Language Purity The Académie française, the four hundred year old body tasked with preserving the linguistic purity of the French language, has threatened to take the unprecedented step of suing the government if it does not remove English words such as “surname” from France’s new biometric identity cards. The Académie argues that France is […]
French Language Purity The Académie française, the four hundred year old body tasked with preserving the linguistic purity of the French language, has threatened to take the unprecedented step of suing the government if it does not remove English words such as “surname” from France’s new biometric identity cards. The Académie argues that France is […]