US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by yreg on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:29PM (#30690175)

There are objectively prescriptive (codified) languages.

In Slovakia we have laws giving a certain public institution the responsibility to define what are the proper rules to use the language, including maintaining the dictionary of all the allowed words and their meanings.

Anything beyond that (with the exception of e.g. scientific terms) is objectively incorrect slovak.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by fuzzer37 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:41PM (#30690394)

And yet that's still not how languages actually work.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by yreg on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:55PM (#30690607)

Why not?

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by qubitcoder on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:09AM (#30695826)

Languages aren't logical pre-determined constructions (unless they're intentionally designed, such as Esperanto).

Humans create languages. And they constantly change and evolve, including new words, letters, grammar, etc. Consider Old English versus Modern English [0]. Or even software companies that have become nouns or verbs in common parlance (e.g. "to google").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by fuzzer37 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:44PM (#30692932)

Have you never made up a new word or colloquialism among friends?

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