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Microsoft Tries Language Control: How Is the L’Académie française Doing?

March 10, 2026

green-dino_thumbAnother dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

Microsoft wants to control language; specifically, the language used to describe the output from the company’s 2026 version of Clippy. In France, l’Académie française has been working hard to prevent words from becoming part of the “officially approved” language of France. For example, one can get a dirty look with a stray “le weekend” or a “Kevin.” But language is a slippery beast. I assume that Microsoft can operate in a more effective manner than France’s official authority on language purity.

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Thanks, Venice.ai. Good enough.

I read “Microsoft Gets Tired of Microslop, Bans the Word on Its Discord, Then Locks the Server after Backlash.” The write up explains:

Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server. Windows Latest was first to notice that the word “Microslop” was actively filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server.

Okay, it’s pretty clear that Microsoft will have to up its enforcement in order to stop allegedly free speech types who do not report to the Softies to implement more controls. Here’s a list of thought starters for the company that would be a country:

  1. Microsoft spelling checkers simple replace “Microslop” with a pop up that displays options but no manual input box; for example: Microsoft, superior, or brilliance
  2. Copilot prowls a user’s content archive on the local device and the cloud automatically replacing the offending work with Microsoft
  3. Microsoft’ s Windows 11 user action monitoring system watches each keystroke. If Microsoft is detected, then the Windows 11 system displays a message like “An unauthorized word has been detected. It has been replaced with the word Microsoft. A second offense will result in the machine locking the logged in user from the device.”

The cited article points out:

the company is responsible for this fallout, as they prioritized AI more than the stability of the OS that it needs to run on. Copilot, being the most visible face of that effort, has naturally become the scapegoat. So when a nickname like “Microslop” starts trending across socials, it was only a matter of time before it reached official channels as well. Windows Latest found that sending a message with the word “Microslop” inside the official Copilot Discord server immediately triggers an automated moderation response. The message does not appear publicly in the channel, and instead, only the sender sees the notice stating that the content is blocked by the server because it contains a phrase deemed inappropriate.

This means that Microsoft is thinking along the same lines as me. I know that as a dinobaby, I am hopelessly out of touch with language. Microsoft, in theory, should know better than to try to force people who are leaving Paris for a “faire le pont” on a bank holiday will probably just use the forbidden word “weekend.” But Microsoft obvious is more capable than a mere country which has been trying for hundreds of years to keep French French.

My thought is that stamping out Microslop is going to be difficult. In fact, it may be more problematic than eliminating “big back” from teen argot. But Microsoft still does Clippy type stuff. Maybe the company will be more capable than l’Académie française? Polymarket play, anyone?

Stephen E Arnold, March 10, 2026

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under AI, Censorship, Microsoft 

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