French is centralized, but not stationary. It's also, at least among languages I'm familar with, an outlier in being so formally standardised - if English was t

French is centralized, but not stationary. It's also, at least among languages I'm familar with, an outlier in being so formally standardised - if English was treated as stringently, variations like Hiberno-English, American English or English as spoken in India would be considered errors, rather than regional variations. Finally, it's not hoping for adoption among a group 40x larger than it's current speaker base.