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This is also the default positions of most (almost all) linguists. You don't get to tell a dog what counts as barking.

• LudwigNagasena 6y ago
  People aren’t dogs and they may desire a unified standard that simplifies communication. By the way, it shouldn’t matter at all what a linguist thinks about that unless it is literally his field of expertise. And political sociolinguistics is not a field of expertise of most linguists.
  • SilasX 6y ago
    This. Just because it's not expert group X's job to study Y, doesn't mean Y is unimportant or can be ignored.
  • qsort 6y ago
    > People aren’t dogs and they may desire a unified standard that simplifies communication. Yeah but do they? It doesn't seem to me like a standard of this kind is anywhere near a priority for anybody. I'm not even a native speaker and I never felt the need of it. Why are we trying to fix something that's clearly not broken?