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<3 <3 We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"
by shashashasha 13y ago
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We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"
- heyitsnick 13y agoPerhaps more accurately put, the "English language has no master." Many--perhaps most--European languages, do have prescriptivist masters. Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and dozens more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators
- kalensh 13y agoEven then, those "masters" only have limited control of the language.