I don’t want to minimize their suffering, their anger, but what is important is that it stops, the premier said of what he described as individual incidents of racism and prejudice.
Why France feels it needs a dictionary of world French rfi.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rfi.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WORLD / AFRICA By AFP Published: Mar 17, 2021 07:28 PM France has long defended the purity of its language with an official list of permitted words, but the launch of a new online dictionary with state support on Tuesday underlines how attitudes have shifted.
For three centuries, the venerable Academie Francaise in Paris has produced state-sanctioned dictionaries that document and approve new terms or expressions.
A general view of Paris Photo: VCGThe first version dates back to the 17th-century creation of the Academie, while work on its latest tome, the ninth, has been underway since 1986. The backers of the new dictionary, which include French President Emmanuel Macron, are lightning quick in comparison and hope to reach many more people with an online resource based on the Wikipedia model.
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France has long defended the purity of its language with an official list of permitted words, but the launch of a new online dictionary with state support on Tuesday underlines how attitudes have shi…