Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked
by umanwizard on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:35PM
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> The standard for correct rules: when two people communicate they emerge at the end with a shared mental model of the subject.
By this standard, using "their", "there", and "they're" or "your" and "you're" completely randomly is fine -- it's almost impossible for it to cause misunderstanding.
Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked
by bluGill on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:05PM
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In fact this is false. Even though in verbal speech they are the same, in written they are different. I have known people who didn't understand something written because the wrong word was written, once someone read it out loud they understood it.
Of course there is no reason the above people couldn't get used to one spelling if they changed the rules. We just need to have universal agreement to change the rules. (I have no clue how you would do that)
People make up languages all the time. You can write your own rules to make the above grammar be instructions on getting to my village. You could write a different set of rules that make it an order to make my roast duck for dinner. (you can have fun coming up with even more bizarre things that it could mean under some rule system)