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by LudwigNagasena 2079 days ago
People aren’t dogs and they may desire a unified standard that simplifies communication.

By the way, it shouldn’t matter at all what a linguist thinks about that unless it is literally his field of expertise. And political sociolinguistics is not a field of expertise of most linguists.
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qsort 2078 days ago
> People aren’t dogs and they may desire a unified standard that simplifies communication.

Yeah but do they? It doesn't seem to me like a standard of this kind is anywhere near a priority for anybody. I'm not even a native speaker and I never felt the need of it. Why are we trying to fix something that's clearly not broken?

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SilasX 2079 days ago
This. Just because it's not expert group X's job to study Y, doesn't mean Y is unimportant or can be ignored.
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