France just banned the word "Esports"...

[@parkinsonparkinson7583]

He had me dying when he said ‘you get your own skin and melee weapon’ 😭😭😭

[@jhinkhadavirtuoso5221]

thinking about joining already

[@sigara1300]

glad ur still alive

[@Oberky]

Same ahahaha

[@orz_naiteen9822]

you apparently also get clan name added in front of ur name

[@rlphjqn]

totally lost it HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@maycee5568]

Oh yes,"we should be fucking dudes" A message I can get behind of

[@borki7469]

or in front of, i go both ways

[@robertnagy3942]

the system does that already, no worries.

[@Linosek279]

I get it

[@GameFuMaster]

Didn't realize they hated being women

[@aryashetty3924]

Is that Zac Efron?

[@fracazer]

0:17 "Where their whole job is to fuck with native and people trying to learn french" (I'm saying this as a french)

[@robertnagy3942]

when will they fix the number things? when you know, instead of saying 20+20+20+x it's just like ninety three or something. I don't speak French at all, I just heard from french speakers that numbers above 40 get really complicated to say, idk if it's true

[@fizzywizzy0]

@@robertnagy3942 numbers 80+ are kind of weird, 80 in french is quatre-vingt (which literally translates to four twenties) and 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (which is four twenties plus ten). The Académie Française is definitely not going to change how these numbers work as they have always worked like this. They aren't trying to make it easier, they are trying to "preserve" it. They won't even allow official gender neutral pronouns, so a group of people with males and females is referred to with the male pronoun.

[@5PctJuice]

@@fizzywizzy0 It would be so easy to just say "C'est septante (70), huitante (80), et neufante (90) maintenant". That "preserves the French language" in that it preserves the standard set by 40, 50, and 60.

[@Olivia-W]

@@5PctJuice That's be nice. And french learners could be happy, too. But noooo, french has to suck.

[@IAm-zo1bo]

​@@Olivia-W if they dont try to preserve it maybe english will creep too much into the language

[@kwinoo2814]

As a french speaker. This is dumb. Nobody will ever use these terms.

[@tanteb]

Et heureusement c'est ridicule

[@VFX-Thms]

Pas faux c'est très con

[@maxiploof]

The French President just hosted an event recognising the scope and the international influence of French esport, and they all kept saying the word "esport" even the president. The goal is just to officialise the correct term in french but they can't "ban" those terms.

[@thinhle8325]

wel that cleared out smth, but Imagine french shoutcasters bit their tongue while casting hype game lmao.

[@ibrahim5463]

"the scope and the international influence of French esport"is French that much present in esport?

[@maxxrr7389]

@@ibrahim5463 KennyS?

[@a.i.m.f8567]

@@ibrahim5463 as much as any major country like usa korea china etc

[@Vaylon.]

@@ibrahim5463 France dominated Rocket League for a while, same for CS, Trackmania's scene is 80% French, they're still doing great on R6S Maybe not as big as countries like SK, China, Brazil or USA but it's also a much smaller country than them (except SK), and has done as much if not more than them (except in LoL and SC)

[@ganondorf66]

Explains a lot why most (older) French people refuse to speak any other language.

[@perkyze]

Idk. Im french canadien and here a lot of people speak both english and french but maybe in France ig but I don’t think it’s to preserver french necessarily I think most just don’t care

[@ganondorf66]

@@perkyze well that's because French Canadian isn't the French I mean

[@perkyze]

@@ganondorf66 I also didn’t see the (older) I think a lot of older french people want to preserve french but as someone young I can tell it’s most likely disappearing in a few generation at least in Canada young people from my experience care but they don’t really know why and more and more people learn english part of it because of internet

[@a.i.m.f8567]

@@perkyze i learned it because of youtube comments section not really because of english class.

[@khoya]

Just one question, you as an american or whatever english-speaking country you're from; how many languages do you speak? 1 ?

[@Realyss_]

I am french and nobody will say these words, streamers i watch laughed when they saw this news

[@tcup4fun]

"own skin and melee weapon" 😂😂😂

[@ansericternynck883]

This translation is made for juridic usage, it's not made to replace the word esport in casual conversation...

[@moldveien1515]

Yes, he said as much at the end of the video.

[@ansericternynck883]

@@moldveien1515 not really

[@pierreleprovost8726]

as a french i just want to clarify something, the words are not banned they did this because we didnt had a french translations for those words (esports/ pro gamers/ streamers etc) sorry for my bad spelling

[@oikawa5775]

ok, so we still uses esports, and what's even better is that today a meeting at the Elysee happened with most of esports figure in France and it was called "esports meeting" and not "jeux-vidéo de compétition meeting''

[@phoenixflamegames1]

I’m glad that they decided that THIS of all things should be the priority of the government.

[@logik99]

Well to be fair… if this part of government is literally established to consider language stuff, and this is only part of what they’ve considered this time around, just sounds like they’re doing their jobs…? Even if it’s pointless to us

[@ansericternynck883]

the was not done by the government...

[@perkyze]

Telling you as a native french speaker I don’t think the french translation will be use except for « joueur professionnel » which is already used.

[@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719]

I know sweden has a similar thing, because back in the day of the latter 1700s the swedish languege seemed to be in the process of disapearing due to the over-abundence of french usage in the upper classes. So this one guy instituted a council like this to work to integrate new words and make them swedish and make them make sense instead of the language slowly having words be replaced. Taht's how swedish now has the word "najs" comming from english "nice" as well as "okej" "okay" and even "paraply", "toalett" and "trottoar" from french. But these words just look like the descriptions of the english words, not french-ified borrowed words.

[@victorachache898]

Damn your French is actually very good. Do you speak it or did you just make sure you pronounced things right for this video?

[@ecg8510]

Just France being France

[@sc98_]

Yeah, this already happened in Spain, they wanted us to say deportes electrónicos (electronic sports) Everyone still uses esports tho, bs idea

[@r7ahtesham885]

France is such a democracy man

[@TheMajorStranger]

The thing is it's easy for native english speaker to say "let the language evolve freely" when you're the dominant language. Language and culture must be preserve to avoid them disappear from cultural domination.

[@lotrdude13]

I was going to say "what the fuck?" but then I remembered the Académie Française, which I know quite a bit about being a French major, and it makes total sense. It doesn't really make sense but considering the Académie, it does lol

[@sploob865]

The french actually recognizing those words are still pretty cool

[@abdullahalamri5084]

THE CUSTOM SKIN AND MELEE WEAPON LMAO

[@Paterrrr]

Being French, I can say it's the dumbest shit they could pull off since a very very long time.

[@fifalableinpit1582]

i respect it because playing videogames isnt a sport

[@harisahmed1]

@@fifalableinpit1582 Im not even gonna start arguing with someone that spells FIFA like he's on special needs.

[@troysmithfr]

@@fifalableinpit1582 Ratio

[@fifalableinpit1582]

@@troysmithfr im right tho

[@nubspotted9783]

"custom skin and melee weapon" 😂😂😂

[@Antoinevdlb]

The council just does this to have an "official" term for most words that come from an English language. But it doesn't mean anyone have to use it. We have a word for Smartphone but everyone just uses that instead

[@moizeau5813]

As a French I understand the changes to keep our language, but banning ? its a bit too much.

[@a.i.m.f8567]

C'est un peu du clickbait, on peux pas bannir des mots, juste officialisé des termes qui devront être utilisés dans les documents officiels, ça change rien pour ceux qui ne travaillent pas pour l'état.

[@moizeau5813]

@@a.i.m.f8567 Je suis totalement d'accord avec ce que te dit.

[@MarkiVolley]

Your French is really good frl

[@wyrw]

Makes me wonder what internet is in French now. Oh wait it's internet

[@samcrow8846]

Nice french man and the skin and melee joke was funny ngl

[@saatofr]

As a french "joueur professionnel de compétition" i was not even informed about this and tbh i don't give a f*ck lmao

[@kaeldeshayes87]

as a french speaker the changes don’t t make sense, jeu vidéo de compétition means video game of competition, and it should be competition of video game

[@nobibo]

"WE SHOULD BE FUCKING DUDES" legendary clip

[@ripcordjack]

They did not Ban the words E-Sports. They suggest the words for official documents etc. Again, they did not ban the Word, at all

[@greaterdog601]

While it is not a ban per say, it is a recommendation by the government on how english named stuff should be named. I'm not even sure if they will even get used anyway. Some of those also are out of line, as streamers are labeled joueurs(gamers) instead of what they are, Content Creators (Créateur de contenu, dans ma si jolie langue) I mean, we are still actively arguing over naming conventions of chocolate breads, so take this "ban" with a grain of salt. From guerande, of course.

[@the77th]

In Nigerian Culture they call it “Failure in Life” or “Disgrace to your ancestors” ….. either one works!

[@mnm1273]

Do you know how much the average pro export player makes?

[@r.casagrande8689]

They call a clutch 1x2 Menage a trois.

[@mangojuuls]

Nah, if language were to evolve freely everyone would be speaking english and that would be dry as fuck

[@lucasdeJU]

It seems like its weird to do that but listen its actually logic to translate english words to french words when you are french x)))

[@Frenzi]

Ur french pronounciation is actually good asf lmao good job

[@maxtergundam]

nothing beats Malaysia banning the word hotdog for sausages

[@antoniocastro9614]

If the change from English to French isn’t exclusively used for legal documents/ laws then I am disappointed

[@toteu00000]

English speaking countries should also have that kind of council

[@Lipatant]

Yeah, sorry but in France we don't say "divulgacher", we do say "spoiling"

[@SaneCowboysfan]

The french would definitely do something like this

[@walkingtree2486]

Must be nice having a government which atleast cares about preserving their language

[@TryonixGaming]

Well France don't translate movie titles like Québec does

[@wikipavetm707]

Don't worry, as a French gamer, I can promise you that nobody will ever use these words anytime soon

[@claireity8490]

between france and quebec both having councils like this, it really sounds like the french language is not doing itself any favours on not going extinct.

[@UnknowinglyDerpy]

If English had something like this we would still be speaking in Shakespearean to this day

[@i2n916]

Emmanuel Macron just invited Benbest (ex-Overwatch League player), GetAmazed (ex-OWL coach) and Adyboo (french OW caster) to talk about esports with him today. It seems like they have an interest in the scene and that's great.

[@Speedself]

I think more people know about Ceb, Laure Valée, Kameto or ZeratoR who were also invited today, I guess it's a step in the right direction

[@i2n916]

@@Speedself oh I didn't know about them too, pretty cool

[@benjik3161]

in the netherlands we use words from many different languages we dont give a fuck we call them loan words

[@ComboSmooth]

I live in Quebec, it's illegal for language to evolve freely here.

[@bartolomeocannibal2060]

at least France has its own patch notes xD for 400 years

[@brive___]

But hamburger is still Le Hamburger and a hotdog is still Un Hotdog

[@lychumya2004]

basically i think this was done to prevent confusion with the word "sports"

[@notaspy1227]

Lol I don’t think France wants to hear me attempt to speak French so it stays E Sport. Your welcome France.

[@randomdamian]

France should learn to count first

[@Quantincodontirontu]

WTF? Sport in french is sport, electronic is eletronique. E-sports matches perfectly with french. Just a committee messing around with shit with no reason other than reminding people they exist

[@SteeperHornet52]

custom skin and mele weapon wtf. im dead

[@nel9972]

People dont get it tho, a language dies like every week and as times goes by, cultures get westernized/americanized. Where i came from, the youth increasingly embrace english and even the english vocab has mixed in with our daily conversation, i think its pretty concerning

[@christiankranmann6876]

they should just surrender and go with the modern times

[@EdgeyStyle]

Then why the french president just invite streamer (that are esport team owner) to the Elysée to celebrate the french esport (and not jeux vidéos de compétition ) 🤔

[@hvymtal8566]

This is doubly stupid since eSport works in french. Sport is the same word in both languages and "electronic" is "electronique" _IDFK maybe they didn't like that the acronym was backwords_

[@richardbreakin163]

As French man I like his accent when speaking french

[@TheMajorStranger]

The Score is in Toronto, so he may have got french classes and has a close to quebec accent. It's pretty good in all consideration so kudos to him.

[@SeraNeph]

It's pronounced and spelt esports. Remember Redeye's words.

[@xeros4000]

this has literally never worked in the history of language.

[@anthony.esper21]

Not gonna lie, your french is actually pretty good.

[@farkxz3105]

being French I would never use these words😂😂😂

[@thunder5631]

Preserve the French 'launage'! Nice caption!! I see what you did there TSE..😏

[@sdrubaa]

My French amis being frenchy!

[@BezzleNA]

LMFAOOOOOO THE SKIN

[@djevangelista1999]

Not gonna complain if they start reusing that Snipedown clip everytime.

[@max6419]

I think it's nice that they preserve their language but there should also be room for evolution rather than artificial new word-making.

[@HavokR505]

the french language loves to take simple english words and then "Frenchify" them into awful french words rather than adopt a new word. but hey atleast they finally got rid of the g in onion a decade ago.

[@ansericternynck883]

We didn't get ride of the g in oignion

[@nicolasrobin6017]

Its different when your native language is english. Here its all about preserving the french language from englicism and english words taking over Oh yeah and Emmanuel Macron held a conference today where he invited all the french esports personalities and literally called it "Esport" respectfully not giving a daln about the academy lmfaoooooo

[@kaeldeshayes87]

and the changes will only be made for law stuff

[@christopherguerra9537]

“WE SHOULD BE FUC**** DUDES”

[@Zekrom249]

Welp. I hear another riot coming.

[@afterhours1337]

Shit the French server admins are coming!!

[@manuelgebhardt7470]

I despise the French language and this just makes it even worse

[@shiima-_-]

fuck, it turns out there are moronic laws not only in Russia

[@OXMStudios]

Trust me no one os gonna use this.

[@89ekaj]

LOL free skin and weapon!! 😭😭😭

[@laggybear829]

Yeah, right, same people who told us after 1 year of french people saying "Le covid" : "Well it should be LA covid "... Nobody listen to them anymore anyway.

[@3st3ban70]

I thought it was both

[@blubfish3592]

He tried french

[@weepofr]

its obviously electrical sports

[@zeqi]

Custom skins and melee weopons

[@wildeskompositum9556]

Theyre 100% in the right, im tired of english words in my language too

[@risheeeesh512]

though with e-sports, sport was the french word for sport long before it was for english, and electronique is obviously also a french word

[@intoclarke9967]

I'd get that skin for sure.

[@Talonzor]

Kinda ironic you spelled language wrong 0:19

[@applejuice5980]

meanwhile they're using week-end. guys you can't just separate a word with a dash and call it your own…or can you?

[@cartermacdonald8352]

Am I wrong or is this litterally not just to correct their language its not France its the French language you can still say the words if your speaking English.

[@cartermacdonald8352]

Comes off so unaware other languages exists

[@faze_kermit9954]

Lol man masters french accent I love it

[@computercrash1372]

there is not any french peole who uses those words fortunately 🤣🤣

[@hicrawl5325]

I am french and I don't give a shit I will still say e-sports and pro gamers.

[@automaticcaptions]

The French are the only ppl who care enough to regulate their language holy fuck. First Quebec now France.... Literally no other language cares this much

[@trito6738]

french being french

[@pojoh2585]

400 Years ago you were british so don't trashtalk other Countries...

[@BDradar]

nah that's not true, i'm french and i call it e-sport. That's cap, we all french are using english words evertime we talk

[@fran_-de2ph]

Online = en ligne, When I saw it i didn’t understand cos i thought it mean in a line but yeah french

[@BeN8957]

I don't see your point, online and en ligne are exactly the same

[@logicmaster756]

I saw this and just died inside thinking wat is happining