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Milky Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

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0 Why have the "guardians of English" failed to provide such codification for the language as has been done by the Academies for French, Spanish, Italian, or, more recently, Hebrew? 0-
  

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0 Maybe they have been afraid that there would be certain people who would whinge02br 00about it until the cows came home. (not mentioning any names of course) 0-

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  • 0 Maybe they have been afraid that there would be certain people who would whinge02br 00about it until the cows came home.
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01cite10Milky12cite10Why have the "guardians of English" failed to provide such codification for the language as has been done by the Academies for French, Spanish, Italian, or, more recently, Hebrew?12blockquote
11font01b00That's a good, and fair, question. I don't have time for rese
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Maybe they have been afraid that there would be certain people who would whinge about it until the cows came home. (not mentioning any names of course)12blockquote
10Is that you linguistics based answer?0-
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0 For two reasons: 1) almost no one cares about keeping English pure. It's borrowed thousands of words from virtually every language on the planet. Unlike French, or Icelandic, where they want to keep their language as pure from foreign influences as possible, it would be massively difficult to do for English. And besides, even if they did, who would go along with it? 2) English is a plurice
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0<So, even if certain purifications were accepted in one region, they might be rejected in another region. >02br
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00Is that the case with French or Spanish - regardless of the limits set by Academies of those languages?0-
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0Languages should be always expanding; otherwise it will die. English is the most acceptable language because of its fluidity and flexibility. Any attempt to fix some rules would not be acceptable among it's vast users. The same was tried in my mother tounge (Bengali) and it miserably failed. No one refers to the rulebook as it is far away from everyday spoken language.0-
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01cite10Mithunbarik12cite10 The same was tried in my mother tounge (Bengali) and it miserably failed. No one refers to the rulebook as it is far away from everyday spoken language.12br
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10But if one doesn't refer to the rulebook or follow those prescriptive rules of Bengali, is one dis
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01cite10Milky12cite10But if one doesn't refer to the rulebook or follow those prescriptive rules of Bengali, is one discriminated against in the job or education market, for example?12br
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10Not at all. The main reason is official work used to be in English. Bengali was introduced as a
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0 Many thanks for that information, Mithunbarik. 0-
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