[marc_abonce]

> But it made 1984, so maybe fine in the end.

I have the opposite impression. It is now impossible to have any conversation about conlangs or language reforms without most people parroting 1984 memes, this very thread is already an example of that.

Which is very ironic because these people are just blindly parroting what a book says instead of thinking critically about a topic and forming their own opinions.

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I mean the conclusion ends up being the same. Linguistics has understood for generations that language is formed by communities and shaped by need.

Something like esperanto or an intentionally simplified english will never succeed as a universal language. People will use the words they find useful and create new words or usages as they find them valuable.

Stuff like the academy francaise are just a fantasy relic from before this was widely understood about language.