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In article <58157@dime.cs.umass.edu> krovetz@cs.umass.edu (Bob Krovetz) writes:
>on the French language.  I heard that it is the authority about
>what is considered official French, and that no French dictionaries
>can be published (at least in France) without their approval.
>To what extent does it actually affect the spoken language?
>Do French dictionaries under-represent the lexical innovation

There are lots of different dictionaries with different degrees of
acceptance of slang and innovations, so I think they do not control
our spoken French, only some official usage.

I am cross-posting this to soc.culture.french, perhaps someone there
knows more about it.

-- Olivier Clary