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There are different ways how languages can change. A language changes organically, if individual people simply talk differently than their predecessors, out of
by xg15 2y ago
There are different ways how languages can change. A language changes organically, if individual people simply talk differently than their predecessors, out of convenience, without any specific intent or plan behind it. That's the way languages have always changed throughout history and keep changing.
Deliberately changing a language and pressuring other people to adopt certain changes in their vocabulary is something entirely different. That too has been tried often in history, but has usually led to conflict and was part of expressions of power.
Emojis can change their meaning organically too, if people just start using them in a different way. Eggplant emoji being the most obvious example I think.
But pushing an update to change the glyph would be about the most top-down and deliberate way to change its meaning that I can think of.
- Muromec 2y ago>pushing an update to change the glyph would be about the most top-down and deliberate way to change its meaning that I can think of. Chairman Mao enters the chat