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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by qsort on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:36PM (#24806052)
This is also the default positions of most (almost all) linguists. You don't get to tell a dog what counts as barking.
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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by LudwigNagasena on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:41PM (#24807306)
People aren’t dogs and they may desire a unified standard that simplifies communication.

By the way, it shouldn’t matter at all what a linguist thinks about that unless it is literally his field of expertise. And political sociolinguistics is not a field of expertise of most linguists.

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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by qsort on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:42AM (#24808196)
> People aren’t dogs and they may desire a unified standard that simplifies communication.

Yeah but do they? It doesn't seem to me like a standard of this kind is anywhere near a priority for anybody. I'm not even a native speaker and I never felt the need of it. Why are we trying to fix something that's clearly not broken?

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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by SilasX on Saturday October 17, 2020 @12:39AM (#24807526)
This. Just because it's not expert group X's job to study Y, doesn't mean Y is unimportant or can be ignored.
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