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Old Mar 21, 2005, 11:03 am   #30 (permalink) (top)
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Yes, English is very uninhibited about its chaotic nature.
But rummie nurtures the illusion that other languages are somehow less chaotic. They ain't.

The Spanish-speaking countries each have an official Academy that takes lofty decisions regulating the language. But in the real world those decisions are virtually worthless, as are those of the Académie française for French. Nobody pays any attention. Human language is by nature anarchic, thoroughly democratic.

Look, rummie, how would it be if we started bitching that hispanophones should regularize those pain-in-the-ass irregular verbs in Spanish? Think they'd listen to us and smarten up?
But that's what you sound like when you say that English-speakers should stop saying "America" to mean the US. You're pissing into the wind.


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