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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 th
by 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 agoThis. 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?