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To be sure, the Dictionnaire does not consist exclusively of naturalized or Frenchified alien words and wordy phrases of bureaucratic facture.
The cardinal also created the Académie Française in 1635 to ensure the purity and clarity of the French language through its Dictionnaire and its Grammaire.
More than that, the Dictionnaire gives its blessing also to several words of blatantly English stock, such as hall, drugstore , and pipeline (pronounce: pea-PLEAN), even including portmanteau words ( bit, pixel ) and acronyms ( laser, radar ).
The French philosopher Pierre Bayle, for example, set out in the 1690s to produce a vast reference work, Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary ), whose sole purpose was to point out the mistakes in all other previously published reference works.
Some of them are real gems: tableur (`tabular operator') for `spreadsheet' is concise, precise, and original; baladeur (`stroller') for `walkman,' although basically a loan translation, adds a fresh nuance to the imagery; best of all perhaps is ordinateur for `computer,' the French term (current since the 1960s, adopted by the Dictionnaire in 1983) meaning something like `methodically arranging agent.