http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/blog/2008/03/france-bans-english-phrases/ We look at learning another language around the world Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:39:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/blog/2008/03/france-bans-english-phrases/#comment-22 Alex Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:20:55 +0000 http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/blog/2008/03/11/france-bans-english-phrases/#comment-22 news like this appears every year! While it's understandable that The Academie Francaise wants to try to protect French culture, rules banning words are really futile. Language is an organic entity that grows and changes as required. Who owns language? I would say the people who speak it, which includes the whole of France. Who are these people to dictate how French people communicate with each other. Any language is a conastantly evolving dynamic organism which exists primarily as a means of commmuncation - hence the modern language teacher's focus on communicative learning. If French people use expressions such as supermodel and podcasting they are already part of the French language and there is nothing Academie Francaise can do about it. news like this appears every year! While it’s understandable that The Academie Francaise wants to try to protect French culture, rules banning words are really futile. Language is an organic entity that grows and changes as required. Who owns language? I would say the people who speak it, which includes the whole of France. Who are these people to dictate how French people communicate with each other.
Any language is a conastantly evolving dynamic organism which exists primarily as a means of commmuncation - hence the modern language teacher’s focus on communicative learning.
If French people use expressions such as supermodel and podcasting they are already part of the French language and there is nothing Academie Francaise can do about it.

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