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Originally Posted by rewboss  Yeah. The French tried that, and it didn't work. The Académie française have, I understand, more or less given up. Ordinary French people simply preferred to say "le weekend" instead of being forced to wrap their tongues around "la fin de la semaine", and that was that. |
i have no idea! it's getting complicated.In my opinion it would be successful if the government orders to use native words in all text books,newspapers,TV ,radio and anywhere else they can.But since you say it's been tried in France and it just didn't work,there's no more to say.
i've heard if you speak English to french people in their country,they won't answer you until you speak french.is that true?because if it is,then it means they are willing to use their words and all it takes is some trying and logically it should leave its own effects,even if they use
le weekend rather than
la fin de la semaine at the end.