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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!eff!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!dime!news
  2. From: news@dime.cs.umass.edu (USENET News System)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.lang
  4. Subject: Academie Francaise
  5. Message-ID: <58157@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 31 Dec 92 08:42:07 GMT
  7. Reply-To: krovetz@cs.umass.edu (Bob Krovetz)
  8. Followup-To: sci.lang
  9. Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  10. Lines: 15
  11.  
  12. on the French language.  I heard that it is the authority about
  13. what is considered official French, and that no French dictionaries
  14. can be published (at least in France) without their approval.
  15. To what extent does it actually affect the spoken language?
  16. Do French dictionaries under-represent the lexical innovation
  17. going on?  I know that no dictionary can completely cover the
  18. lexicon, but this seems to be a different matter.  Do any other
  19. languages have a comparable organization?
  20. From: krovetz@sydney.cs.umass.edu (Bob Krovetz)
  21. Path: sydney!krovetz
  22.  
  23. Thanks,
  24. Bob
  25.  
  26. krovetz@cs.umass.edu
  27.