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Comedie francais. (France's attempts to keep its language pure)
From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19940709
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The Academie Francaise is trying to protect French from invasions by foreign words or phrases. Laws requiring pure French in legal documents and advertising and new dictionaries have not prevented words like 'le fastfood' from entering everyday speech.
THE French have always felt passionately about their language. Anatole France likened it to a woman "so beautiful, proud, modest, strong, touching, voluptuous, chaste, noble, intimate, crazy and good that one loves her with all one's being." In the absence of a monarchy, the language has come to symbolise the French national identity. ...
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