The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked
As a french guy, I sense some kind of disdain for the Académie Française that I don&#x27;t really get. The evolution of the french language is not dictated by the Académie, but rather by its use by the french people, and the role of the Académie is merely to decide what should or shouldn&#x27;t be set in stone in the dictionary. And in fact the usage of the french language is quite diverse, even in France. You can have regional variation in words even in metropolitan France, but if you take into account oversea territories like french polynesia, Guyana or Mayotte it gets even more complicated. So yes, convenient english words that are widely used by french people on a day-to-day basis are not added right away in the dictionary and in fact the Académie is actively trying to find french equivalent for them that are coherent with the etymology of the french language, but it doesn&#x27;t prevent french people from using them.
So I get that the immortals don&#x27;t represent the french society and the never have. But they do not really have any kind of political impact on the country, the are just the bookkeepers of the français.