{"id":32356,"date":"2020-10-06T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=32356"},"modified":"2020-10-06T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T00:31:08","slug":"french-culture-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"French Culture – Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the term \u201cfake news<\/em>\u201d might feel new, the concept isn\u2019t. Rumors, hear-say, propaganda, and manipulations are as old as language itself1<\/a><\/sup>Le saviez-vous? Le Fran\u00e7ais est la langue officielle de la France depuis Fran\u00e7ois I \/ 1539!<\/span>. And in today\u2019s hyper-connected world, these concepts can seem more pressing than ever.<\/p>\n

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What will people say?<\/strong>2<\/a><\/sup>While not directly related, the French term le qu’en dira t’on<\/strong> literally means what will people say.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In today\u2019s hyper-connected information world, a Tweet can ruin your life \u2026 even if you didn\u2019t Tweet it \u2026 and even if it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

The French word for fake news<\/em> is infox<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0a word that was coined by the D\u00e9l\u00e9gation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00e0 la langue fran\u00e7aise et aux langue de France<\/b> (DGLFLF <\/em>or often just DGLF<\/em>, the General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France<\/em>)3<\/a><\/sup>The DGLF is like a sort of rapid response partner to the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise. While the AF ponders the long term evolution of French, the DGLF makes quick calls on new terms that will preserve French over words from other languages<\/span>. It is a combination of the words information<\/strong> and intoxication <\/strong>(both of which happen to be cognates with their English equivalents!)<\/p>\n

I’m sharing two songs this week. Written decades apart, they caution us about the dangers of one of the world’s oldest and perhaps most insidious forms of infox, la rumeur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Faites moi savoir dans les commentaires laquelle des deux chansons vous pr\u00e9f\u00e9rez. <\/strong>(Let me know in the comments which of the two songs you prefer.)<\/em><\/p>\n