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I think they said that too about standardizing schooling, mass media, mass communications, standardised national languages. Also, the real tinfoil hat is our A

• jjgreen 3y ago
  That's "propersay" citizen.
• kibwen 3y ago
  And they were right, too. Language is far more homogenous these days than it's ever been. As for the parent commenter's point, as we encode in software what "correct" language sounds like, it will naturally exert pressure to conform to whatever notion of "correct" that you chose; conformity is literally what things like spellcheck are for. And it's not necessarily a bad thing for languages to be more uniform, especially from the perspective of non-native speakers, but it remains true that it will constrain the future mutation of the language, even if it won't totally halt it.
  • technojamin 3y ago
    fr fr
  • dsign 3y ago
    > Specially from the perspective of non-native speakers. Mind you, non-native speakers tend to involuntarily stretch and bend the language this way and that. It’s when somebody else in society uses that involuntary bending and stretching to mark and segregate foreigners that tools like Grammarly come handy. And, that’s my grudge with Grammarly: to me, most of its suggestions read as “you are not writing pureblood, your written mongrel will earn you the scorn of your betters.”
• wongarsu 3y ago
  And languages are dying out at a record rate. Anything that isn't at least a national language is struggling, with native speakers slowly dying out.
• School-Cotton 3y ago
  > I think they said that too about standardizing schooling, mass media, mass communications, standardised national languages. And they were right. All of those things have led to a huge decline in language diversity.
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