Here are the show notes for Episode 54, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Florent Moncomble, Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at University of Artois, France about what English and French have in common and all the discourses swirling around French that are also relevant to English, including:

The role of L’Académie Française 

Prescriptivism in French and English

Complaints about decline, destruction, young people and migration and why they use the same language proxies as their English counterparts. 

What French linguists are doing to address these misunderstandings and misrepresentations. 


Florent’s links: https://linktr.ee/f_moncomble 

Les Linguistes Atterrées: https://www.tract-linguistes.org/ 
L'Académie Française: https://www.academie-francaise.fr/ 
and a Guardian story about it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/academie-francaise-denounces-rise-of-english-words-in-public-life 
Bernard Cerquiglini on why English isn’t a real language: 
https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/la-langue-anglaise-n-existe-pas-un-linguiste-provoque-avec-humour-les-britanniques-20240311  
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/08/english-is-not-a-language-its-just-badly-spoken-french/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13181993/English-exist-badly-pronounced-French-linguist.html 
Contributors
Lisa Casey 
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton 
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 
Jacky Glancey 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Raj Rana
Matthew Butler 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 
Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 
Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 

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