The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked

The august Académie française — the elite club of 40 “immortals,” as the members are known, that serves as the official guardian of the French language — does not admit just anybody. But the sacred job of protecting France from “brainless Globish” and the “deadly snobbery of Anglo-American,” as a member spat out in a speech last month, has rarely been more difficult to attain. Three times the academy members have voted, most recently in late January, and three times they have failed to achieve a majority.

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