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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by mc32 on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:31PM (#19539939)
That’s a good question. Hopefully they choose one or the other and not choose to make up a totally synthetic and nonsense suffix (as when they want to invent new French words so as not to corrupt French with loan words (have they come up with a native word for sushi, by the way?)
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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by seszett on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:27AM (#19541708)
French is almost completely impervious to "totally synthetic" suffices or words, almost all new vocabulary is created from Latin (or Greek for the more technical or scientific words) when it's not borrowed from a foreign language. Creating a new suffix from scratch actually sounds like more of an American answer to the "gender problem".

There is also no reason to invent a word to replace "sushi", just as nobody is advocating for a replacement for "fish and chips" or "hamburger".

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