{"id":11283,"date":"2014-10-27T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2014-10-27T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:09:47","slug":"the-spanish-royal-academy-versus-the-french-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/the-spanish-royal-academy-versus-the-french-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish Royal Academy versus the French Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11284\" alt=\"DRAE\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DRAE1.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/>The Spanish Language Academy could teach the French a thing or two.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/international\/actualites-internationales\/422154\/les-22-academies-de-la-langue-espagnole\">latest column in Quebec daily Le Devoir<\/a>, Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau\u00a0explains how the 22 countries of the Spanish speaking world work together to regulate the Spanish language.<\/p>\n<p>The contrast with France\u2019s French Academy is striking.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the French Academy are splitting hairs about feminizing titles \u2013 should you call a female president <i>Madame LA presidente<\/i>, or <i>Madame LE president<\/i>. Since 1635, they have only published 8 editions of their dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Spain\u2019s Royal Academy, founded in 1714, just released the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> edition of it\u2019s <i>Diccionario<\/i>. Each of the worlds Spanish-speaking countries has its own language academy and contributes new vocabulary to the dictionary, which is widely respected and widely used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpanish speakers, who are just as purist as French speakers, are demonstrating how to modernize both a language and its culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/international\/actualites-internationales\/422154\/les-22-academies-de-la-langue-espagnole\">Read the rest of the article (in French)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Language Academy could teach the French a thing or two. In his latest column in Quebec daily Le Devoir, Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau\u00a0explains how the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,57,59,53,51,87,98,30,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11286,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions\/11286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}