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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by dorfsmay on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:51AM (#19542721)
If you see biweekly somewhere, it is impossible to know what it means without more explanations, even context isn't enough. This has been like this for years and nobody's even tried to fix it.

What is the point of having such confusion?

Also, why having dictionaries at all? And who decides which one is right?

Why not have a body made up of experts who make that decisions once and for all when natural evolution leads to bad results?

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by umanwizard on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:31AM (#19543022)
> Also, why having dictionaries at all?

Exactly the opposite of why you think we have them, apparently. In English-speaking countries, dictionaries document existing usage, they don’t try to influence it. No modern dictionary has any opinion on what usage is “correct”, and you can find a lot of extremely non-standard things in the most prestigious dictionaries.

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