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Though I cannot agree with the pile of misbegotten abbreviations that passed as a posting in the example, I have to say one thing about the management of a language: who's going to decide?
If I am not mistaken, doesn't France have an entire ministry devoted to controlling the French language? And though they can control it in France, there are still variations like the Quebec, Hatian, African and others that they have no control over. Who is willing to allow the government, or any other entity, to control the language?
Who's English would be right; ours, Australia's, or Great Britain's? We already speak 'Murican most of the time, don't we? The upper crust among the British surely frown upon our own degradation of the language.
Yeah I cringe thinking of my children typing like that, but I also let them know what is acceptable to turn in as a piece of "scholarly" work (well, as scholalrly as 11 and 7 year olds can turn in). Languages don't degrade, they evolve. Sometimes we don't like that evolution....
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