French vs Anglicisms

Originally posted by Palynka
Or because with all that aspiration, it's hard to have very long words in English.

Heavy breathing: le vice anglais.

Originally posted by Palynka
The French do. That's why the Academie Francaise has a problem.

does the Academie Francaise really think that the people will change the words they use just because the Academie says so?

Originally posted by Melanerpes
does the Academie Francaise really think that the people will change the words they use just because the Academie says so?

Yes! 😵

But of course, the people just ignore them. Here's a great video that starts with this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought.html