2023-10-15 17:06:04
In a column published this Sunday in “Le Monde”, several dozen personalities from the academic but also literary worlds in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and France, such as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux, plead for an evolution spelling adapted to modern uses. And past participle agreement could be the first step. Article reserved for subscribers Journalist at the Society pole By Charlotte Hutin Published on 10/15/2023 at 7:06 p.m. Reading time: 4 min
Moreonions and old ladyall plurals with s (of louses, of stones, of paintings…), the deletion of the agreement of the past participle,… In a column published in The world This Sunday, major public figures and academics are arguing for the urgency of cleaning up our spelling. “Are we forced to write with a pen, to read with a candle? », Ask the signatories. “And yet, everywhere, we are required to read and write with a spelling of 1878, yes, 1878. While the corrected spelling of 1990 appears in all dictionaries, even that of the French Academy. We, French speakers from different countries, ask our institutions, but also the media, publishing houses, digital companies, to offer us texts, messages, in new spelling, and to go further in this direction . »
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