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Some of us are just trying to make it to tomorrow, next week, next month or next quarter. Spare a thought for them. I'm glad you have the time and mental energy
by denkmoon 2y ago
Some of us are just trying to make it to tomorrow, next week, next month or next quarter. Spare a thought for them. I'm glad you have the time and mental energy to pontificate about the beauty of language, but language is a tool just as much as an art. The Sistine Chapel is ultimately a church to be used in worship.
- keiferski 2y agoThis line of thought can be used to dismiss pretty much everything other than purely utilitarian subsistence activities. Why pontificate about mathematics, or science, or food, or anything at all when some people can’t make it through the day? Why not live in concrete boxes and eat nutritious flavorless goop? Even then - yes, if you want to treat it as purely a pragmatic thing, then it’s kind of important to everyone to have the same set of rules to follow. Unless you want a church comprised of people that can’t communicate with each other because their language isn’t standardized? This already happened in the 19th century, when spoken languages had many orthographic variations. The reason we have rules like the ones we do now is because it was a problem that needed to be solved. When you have fifty different ways of writing grammatical rules down, it becomes difficult to communicate.
- _carbyau_ 2y ago> can’t communicate with each other because their language isn’t standardized Uh, you mean "standardised"? :-P My kid is learning to read right now and the amount of exceptions I keep tripping over is crazy. And then you get things like Jabberwocky where undefined words never seen before were a large part of the point. Things need to be "standardised enough" for the message to get across, but I'd cry if it were a 100% completely detailed specification.