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Re:Why God Hates German Words by jacques_chester on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:10AM (#2827955)
Comparably, the French have L'Académie Française. Stuffed to the roof with curmudgeons who reject all foreign influences -- even from other Francophonic countries.

There's cases where Swiss French (counting), Quebecois French (conjugation of many verbs) etc is more logical or more consistent, but the changes are rejected as foreign by the Académie.

Re:Why God Hates German Words by Terretta on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:29PM (#2828697)
le weekend, le sandwich, un parking, un smoking ...
Re:Why God Hates German Words by jacques_chester on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:51PM (#2830632)
Yes, loanwords too.