2/4 Count me in the camp of those who think the French Academy is an outdated fossil of an institution that still doesn’t understand that dictionaries should be descriptive rather than prescriptive.

3/4 It’s also worth pointing out that the French Academy opposed the constitutional recognition and protection for regional languages within France (Alsatian, Arpitan/Franco-Provençal, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Flemish, Gascon, and Occitan) in 2008—classic imperialist move.