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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
harry, you speak as if there were only ONE dictionary of the french language, by the Académie Française,
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Heavens, no, I certainly don't think that. Of course I'm aware that there are other French dictionaries, just as there are other German dictionaries than the Duden.
It doesn't change the fact, though, that some languages have dictionaries which are, in some sense or another, regarded as the "official definition" of the language, and that other languages do not. Don't you find that interesting? I do!