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minus-squareComment105@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThey don’t. Language requires intelligent design from intelligent people sometimes. When needed, prescriptivists in legion can make a literate civilization out of illiterate primitives. The asinine and the arcane can both make learning unnecessarily difficult.
minus-squareReddfugee42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI knew after the first FOUR WORDS of your comment that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Language literally evolves organically, constantly.
They don’t.
Language requires intelligent design from intelligent people sometimes. When needed, prescriptivists in legion can make a literate civilization out of illiterate primitives.
The asinine and the arcane can both make learning unnecessarily difficult.
I knew after the first FOUR WORDS of your comment that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Language literally evolves organically, constantly.