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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by kuschku on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:10AM (#19541176)
German actually has the Rat der Deutschen Sprache which is exactly this and makes exactly these decisions. As do many other languages.

The latest change they made was introducing the capital ẞ.

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by bhaak on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:11AM (#19541431)
No, it doesn't if you mean with "exactly these decisions" that it also decides what words are considered officially part of the language.

You also got the name wrong. It's "Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung" (Council for German Orthography) and that is exactly what they do.

They standardize on the orthography. Nothing more.

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