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Gil Scott-Heron Visualized: 'Where Did The Night Go'

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Mostly sane, most of the time.1/12/2012 9:00:21 pm PST

re: #120 reine.de.tout

The French are very careful to try to preserve their language. They really do not like it when Anglais makes its way into the language.

There is an institution in France, L’Academie Francaise, which tries to prevent English from creeping into the language. They do other things, too, but this is one of the things they look at.

As opposed to English, which takes a “more is more” attitude towards vocabulary.