Comment by hluska
6 months ago
No, I’m just bad at spelling poorly. What’s wrong with following the rules of a language? If I don’t use Rust properly, it won’t compile. Why make exceptions for human language?
6 months ago
No, I’m just bad at spelling poorly. What’s wrong with following the rules of a language? If I don’t use Rust properly, it won’t compile. Why make exceptions for human language?
Human languages have less "rules" and more "patterns that improve communication", and they constantly change. And even languages with like legitimate rules-bodies overseeing it still see variation in normal use.
Prescriptivism is an option of course, but it's inherently futile to some degree. Unleſſ you intend to maintain thiſ for all time, and even then your choice of what to canonicalize iſ pretty arbitrary outside of conlangſ (ſo maybe you have a chance with Eſperanto)