{"id":125279,"date":"2022-06-02T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125279"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:40:51","slug":"france-has-elected-to-ban-english-gaming-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125279-france-has-elected-to-ban-english-gaming-terms","title":{"rendered":"France has elected to ban English gaming terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French officials have announced that they are banning the use of English gaming terms in favour of French words, as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/31\/france-bans-english-gaming-tech-jargon-in-push-to-preserve-language-purity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>While this is amusing, it is unlikely to force French gamers to change their habits.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s government has expressed concern about the overuse of English coming at the detriment of French, so this choice, given the scale of the gaming market, isn\u2019t surprising.<\/p>\n<p>This new set of bans will require official gaming organisations to substitute gaming terms like Streamer and Esports with their French translations.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this will have the desired effect remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125277-the-publishers-for-next-weeks-summer-games-fest-have-been-revealed\">The publishers for next week\u2019s Summer Games Fest have been revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has announced that they are banning English gaming terms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":125280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18339,26243],"class_list":["post-125279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-france","tag-gaming-terms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}