November 6, 2023!

Language and linguistic forms are a playground for all the ideologies that meet at a time when wokeism claims to shape the world through speech. But the flaw of neology at all costs is a major political fact. The failure of the proposal of the word "francocide" is an illustration of the liveliness of language that has nothing to do with the political will to shape it or to recover it, and just as the failure of inclusive writing will be explained by the resistance of speaking subjects to the imposition of standards that are not understood, so the reactivation of cultivated etymological forms is understood by the mechanics specific to the history not of words, but of language itself. And in this area, the University has things to say.