Christophe Benzitoun: Who wants the skin of the French language?
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Author and linguist Christophe Benzitoun was the guest of Pascal Paradou © Yasmine Bouland / RFI
By: Pascal Paradou
31 min
"My credo is to say that the French language is only worn out when not in use. To defend the French language, you have to speak it in all its forms, and accept the way in which it is used. 'uses, that's how we enrich it, that's how it evolves and that's how it stays alive! "
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The level of French spelling has continued to decline for thirty years.
Based on this observation, Christophe Benzitoun gives us an ardent plea for a language which evolves by refuting the topos of “it was better before”.
For him, the roots of the phenomenon are to be found in the too great divide between the oral language and the written language, sacred and fixed.
A fracture that needs to be repaired urgently, so that French truly remains a living language.
Christophe Benziton
is
Lecturer in French linguistics at the University of Lorraine and member of the editorial committee of the Encyclopédie grammaticale du français, he presents his essay
Who wants the skin of the French language
, published by
Le Robert
in the
Temps de Parole
collection
.
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AmArou Festival
at
the French Institute of Togo
.
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