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That there is no Académie anglaise is a fact which surprises and appalls the French.

• switch007 3y ago
  The degree to which we do not care what the French think about our lack of an official body overseeing and dictating the language of English can not be accurately described in words. We would have to invent a new unit of measurement to measure it. :)
  • jjgreen 3y ago
    On Dave's scale, probably a "Shart" https://blogography.com/archives/2019/04/the-dave-scale-of-giving-a-shit.html https://blogography.com/archives/2019/04/the-dave-scale-of-g...
    • switch007 3y ago
      By that scale it’s “no shits given”
• HKH2 3y ago
  Prescriptivism only gets you so far.