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p>French officials are told to stop gaming Anxioms

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p>31 May

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p>France's language watchdog has urged officials of the government to make use of French gaming terms rather than English.

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p>The Academie Francaise believes that "jeu vidéo de competition" should be replaced with "e-sports" and that "streamer" should be replaced with "joueur-animateur direct". https://gservers.org/ </p>

p>France's minister of culture has told the AFP news agency that Anglicisms are "a barrier to understanding".

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p>However, gamers have criticised the ban, with one saying them "completely useless".

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p>France frequently warns of the "debasement of its language" by the importation of English words.

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p>Other official translations include "jeu video and nuage" for "cloud gaming".

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p>The Academie Francaise was created in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, and is the official custodian of the French language.

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p>The forty Academie members even have their own heavily embroidered uniform, complete with ceremonial sword and a dress that may not look completely out of the game like 2014's Assassin's Creed Unity.

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p>The institution has long fought against the introduction of English words into French, something technology has frequently promoted.

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p>However, as news site Thelocal.fr reported, a prior effort to replace "le wifi" with "l'access without fil a web" was not able to take off.

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p>On Twitter, one gamer was against the latest ruling and wrote: "I'm French and I find this absolutely ridiculous, nobody will ever use those terms. This ban is absurd.

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p>In a series of replies to Eurogamer's tweet, several others posted memes suggesting that the French versions were more sophisticated than the English.

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p>France frowns on the use of clickbait, deepfakes and even podcasts.

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p>26 May 2020

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p>Don't use the term fake news,' France urged

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p>5 October 2018

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