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The effort of the Academy to create new words top-down (partly) inspired us to make a parodic website: https://bitoduc.fr/

I think french rappers (which are amazing imho) create more words successfully because they have a mechanics for popularizing the new words. They can have a word adopted with one song.

My problem with the Academy is rather simple, if an entire profession use "deadlock" successfully, why complicate things creating a new word like "interblocage"? For technical fields this may brings confusion.




The word "interblocage" has been used for at least a century in mechanics though. It's just a very straightforward word that anyone could come up with to describe such a situation, and one that is immediately understandable to a French speaker. I'm pretty sure the confusion would come from using "deadlock" to someone who knows "interblocage", rather than the contrary.


I glanced at your list, and thought this one in particular was brilliant: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) <--> SAVON (Simple Accès Vers Objets Nuageux)


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