Keeping Up With Linguistic Change
l’Académie Française has just announced that a set of 2,400 proposed changes to spellings and punctuations will be rolled out in school text books in the upcoming academic year. My knowledge of the Académie is not that great, but if I’m not mistaken, this is tantamount to revolution, not evolution. Apparently, these 2,400 changes affect approximately four percent of the… Read more »