[LMB] OT: Language changes
Marc Wilson
marc.wilson at gmx.co.uk
Wed Sep 15 18:19:37 BST 2021
On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:43:54 -0400, Elizabeth Holden
<alzurite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Thing is, nobody controls the language. If anyone could, it might be more
>biddable.
The French have tried. Nobody, except government departments you want
to sell stuff to¹, takes a blind bit of notice of the Acadamie.
¹And that's largely a way to have an invisible tariff against imports.
If your proposal is not in perfect French, into the bin it goes.
--
adage, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. - Ambrose Bierce
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