[G4] [OT] Correct English Flame War

[Robert H. Baucom]

France ? An excellent example of what happens when the "Authorities"  
try to freeze or suppress what is acceptable in a language.

A quote from Orik on the website Mouthfuls: I've found that language  
cops generally mock everyone who can't use language at the level they  
can manage, while dismissing anyone who corrects them as being  
unnecessarily pedantic.

These purists in France and Quebec are  wetting their pants about how  
many americanisms are assimilating  into their everyday usage.
That is the reason that English is such an expressive language. It  
gathers up these nouns and verbs from other languages that catch
the public's fancy. American English adopted French terms such as  
"garage" on the pretty quick. My old Dad and uncles didn't pronounce  
Coupe as "coop", they
used the "Correct French" pronunciation "Cu-pey" ... Meanwhile the  
frogs are getting jerky over American Movies, fast food and music.  
lyrics.

http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/difficulty-in-being- 
french.html

http://www.samizdata.net/mt/93uhdy736.cgi?entry_id=11291

Ah speeks Tex un. Hand me that roll uv bob-war.

RHB

On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Richard Klein wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM, keith_w <keith_w at dslextreme.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> That statement is without meaning to me.
>> How do you define a 'language academy' and of what use/authority  
>> is it?
>> Do you know of any other (than the U.S.) country that has one?
>
> France has some kind of organization that decides which words are
> accepted into the French language and which aren't.
>
> -- 
> Rich
> Sent from: Framingham Massachusetts United States.
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