Foreign journalists pay more heed to the Académie française than do the French themselves
This is all to the good, but it is a mistake to think of the Académie as “allowing” anything. Founded in 1634, it is certainly venerable. Its members, of whom there are only 40, are called; even some of France’s greatest literary luminaries have been denied entry to the club. Academicians wear special green-embroidered jackets and swords, and meet in the palatial rooms of the Institut de France.
That the Académie is at best aspirational—a source of guidance people might say they want but often cheerfully ignore—is better understood by the French than by outsiders. France Culture, a radio station, called the recent change of mind on gendered titles “arather than a revolution”. The Académie was behind the times, as even its own ruling acknowledged: its job is to observe “good usage” as already practised, and to recognise the language’s evolution, not to steer it.
Take the tango of pronunciation and spelling. Always and everywhere, the sounds of words evolve; so every once in a while, official bodies step in to tidy up the orthography, getting rid of inconsistencies and silent letters, nativising foreign borrowings and so on. Traditionalists howl—this too is universal—but in most cases, the new spellings settle in without much fuss.
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