{"id":1322,"date":"2011-11-27T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:02:22","slug":"academie-francaise-offered-new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/academie-francaise-offered-new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Academie Francaise offered new words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Bonjour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Bonjour-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bonjour\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1323\" \/><\/a>The Academie Francaise, protector of the French language and notoriously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/the-french-and-their-language-an-update\/\">hostile to English encroachments<\/a>, has been challenged to accept new words into their dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public have been invited to make suggestions for additions to the language as part of the 2011 Festival XYZ, now in its tenth year. The festival of new words was founded by a French sociologist who says the idea is to bring new life to the language. (<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpalance.com\/possessing-xanax-without-a-prescription\/\">https:\/\/michaelpalance.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>The festival\u2019s word of the year was announced as \u201c<em>attachiant(e)<\/em> \u2013 a combination of <em>attachant <\/em>(captivating, endearing) and the slang word <em>chiant <\/em>(bloody nuisance) to denote someone you cannot live with but cannot live without\u201d (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/nov\/27\/academie-francaise-challenged-new-words?CMP=twt_fd \">The Guardian<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Other offerings include <em>b\u00eate seller<\/em> (a book that is badly written but a best seller) and <em>eurogner <\/em>\u2013 euro plus <em>rogner <\/em>(to cut down). <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope the Academie sees sense and adds these delightful new words!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academie Francaise, protector of the French language and notoriously hostile to English encroachments, has been challenged to accept new words into their dictionary. Members of the public have been invited to make suggestions for additions to the language as part of the 2011 Festival XYZ, now in its tenth year. The festival of new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,44],"tags":[4,310,1075,51,1076,311,44],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","category-words","tag-french","tag-french-language","tag-french-words","tag-language","tag-new-french-words","tag-new-words","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}