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Homme de lettres (Score:2)

by rafael (2125) <{rgarciasuarez} {at} {gmail.com}> on 2003.11.28 5:29 (#26129) Homepage Journal

This kind of dispute is as old as the Académie itself -- the most notorious being the one between Nicolas Boileau-Despréeaux and Charles Perrault. Both, however, were skilled writers, which is not the case of VGE.
The Académie was, by the way, created by Richelieu as a propaganda instrument. It was already obsolete by the end of the XVIIth century.

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- Re:Homme de lettres (Score:2)
  
  by TorgoX (1933)
  
  I think the Akademi Franse needs to reedem itself in a style fitting to this century -- by providing us some violent entertainment. I desire televised debates over the points of supposed linguistic contention, with intractible disputes settled with machete-fights. To the death. The machetes must be not terribly sharp. We don't want things to go too quick.
  - Re:Homme de lettres (Score:2)
    
    by rafael (2125)
    
    Because you think this doesn't exist already ? Usually they even add a couple of jesuit ninjas to the pack.

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