May 1968 did not care, "the walls were the words" without fault, but the '80s were the years of the War of Religion spelling and one lives worthy of distinguished academicians and linguists grapple with one another, verbal means, I would say sometimes violently, and in a language somewhat chastened, the quarrel of the Reformation! French spelling ... ...
Spelling French n'ayan t, according to Baudelot and Establet never designed to serve as a basis for democratic education, but rather according to the dictionary of the Academy of the seventeenth century " to distinguish the honest man ignorant and simple women ", she proves to be less an instrument of culture as the product of a highly developed culture that is learned along with a classroom culture ... (1)
It is therefore not surprising that linguists generous, and educators engaged in the democratization of knowledge itself are therefore set the goal of reform ... no wonder that intellectuals are distinguished himself eager to defend the cultural property in their possession and had acquired dearly ...
The school itself, which devotes so much time and energy was divided between reformers and defenders of the circumflex, which, like Proust "trembled no longer see the peacock to his wheel if lost his o "...
In France, it seems everything ends (or begins) through legislation. Even on the tongue. Taking action against the intrusion of "Franglais". While stuffing themselves with pizza and paella ...
A simple pragmatism would have been, or would, in the area of spelling, let go a little bit, let it evolve in the writing language along with spoken language ... not to strive to write a past participle agreement that our dear speakers, political as well as "televisions" were casually let fall ! Reform rather than short, logical, systematic and scientific of orthography, a policy of tolerance of this development every day, we "endorse" legally thereafter, would have brought perhaps more fruit than the dictation Bernard Pivot. ... Moreover, with the spirit of contradiction that characterizes this field, while there are legal tolerances are not enforced ...!
And during that time .... she runs the spelling, it runs ...
If you read the reviews on the internet, one is struck with the spelling "lamentable, Madam, sorry! "Some of them ...
" And yet they write! ".... They write and even make themselves understood, as evidenced by the reactions they often provoke bitter ....
We therefore remains to teach spelling, not as a discipline energy-hungry, but as part of our writing, which certainly conveys a cultural tradition, but which can and should evolve without being lost so far, our culture, nay, our national identity ... ...
For further reflections on this course, go to the store next to ortografikement yours, which I find it hard to write the title without making mistakes ...!
continued ...
(1) Christian Baudelot - Roger Establet: level rises. ed threshold, a reality check 1989
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