Anthere wrote:
French are very troubled by your near-lack of
grammatical and typographic rules.
They exist in English: Fowler. (qv in wikipedia). That will tell you,
for example, that it's the 1980s not the 1980's.
They're not as "top-down" as the Academie though, they're a mix of what
is being used with a healthy dose of pedantry.