The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked

Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by bisRepetita on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:10AM (#19541178)

???? There is a huge gap between trying to influence the French language, and dictating it (forcing to use it). The Francophones at the end of the day decide what they use, they live as a free society.

I welcome people trying to creatively influence a language, whether they are normal people, cool teenagers, rappers and rock stars, Quebecois guardians of the French language, or people at the Academie Francaise.

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by makapuf on Monday April 01, 2019 @07:34AM (#19542293)

For all words the equivalent of computer - "ordinateur" was invented by académie française from a sollicitation of IBM and it stuck. Everyone uses this word now.

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by p0nce on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:29AM (#19542588)

Yes, this is national pride about this one word that stuck, but here is what "ordiner" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_orders

Meanwhile the rest of the world use a word that refers to computation, and french has even a "computationnel" word because "ordinateur" doesn't make much sense. A computer is not something that gives holy orders.

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by 0815test on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:39AM (#19542651)

> A computer is not something that gives holy orders.

Unless it's running HolyC and TempleOS, of course! Rust and RedoxOS may be the best human-made solutions, but a computer with TempleOS is the only true "ordinateur", because it directly communes with G-d.

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