@cecilia:
you may find it silly or even stupid. Personally, i have no feelings about it. it's their language and they have the right to do whatever they wish. Anyway, these rules are made by a bunch of scolars who announce these things. Language is a flexible, living thing. And slang and new words get used by the regular people all the time.
And that's EXACTLY why this provincial attitude about the great, grand and grandiose French language is so damn laughable: all these Linguistically Correct pronouncements don't matter the proverbial hill of beans, save in governmental and effette twit circles. When you consider how much of OUR language is made up of French words (I've used at least three already!), and yet it survives as a vital and rich means of expression, these arrogant, pompous, self-important French drennheads become giant laughingstocks, and correctly so!
