Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers...
by CRConrad on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:08AM
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> English is already a counterexample.
I meant counterexample in the sense of "language that does at least ostensibly have a central authority (the Duden) still in the end having to bow to the will of the language-using public". English isn't a counterexample of that, since it doesn't even remotely claim to be governed by any central authority.
> ...languages are primarily spoken. An orthography reform won't ever change how people speak, so whether the German one was successful or not is irrelevant
"Primarily" is not the same as "only". You haven't heard a word I've said, have you? And yet here we are, talking to each other...
I meant counterexample in the sense of "language that does at least ostensibly have a central authority (the Duden) still in the end having to bow to the will of the language-using public". English isn't a counterexample of that, since it doesn't even remotely claim to be governed by any central authority.
> ...languages are primarily spoken. An orthography reform won't ever change how people speak, so whether the German one was successful or not is irrelevant
"Primarily" is not the same as "only". You haven't heard a word I've said, have you? And yet here we are, talking to each other...