The world as seen by Laure Mi Hyun Croset: Neologisms

Le Regard Libre N° 68 - Laure Mi Hyun Croset

Each month, find the column of one of the personalities who have given us the pleasure of taking up the pen for Le Regard Libre on a rotating basis. Author Laure Mi Hyun Croset takes on the exercise of writing a column questioning an intellectual trend of our time.

As if it were the last bastion against barbarism, the French language is often at the heart of fierce debate. It is accused of being impoverished or, on the contrary, degraded by the addition of less euphonious terms to its lexicon, or of English terms that already exist in the language of Molière.

The quarrel between the purists and the advocates of a lively, uninhibited language is not without foundation. This opposition between enacted norms and usage reflects two conceptions of existence, one that aims to preserve at all costs what is crumbling, v