Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Logic for Grammarian Meddling in Language

I love languages. A string of symbols and a group of rules coming together to convey meaning, is utterly fascinating. So I suppose I'm in a biased place against grammarians who want to standardize English.

Language is intended to convey meaning.
Language should be standardized in order to clearly convey meaning.
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All language should be the same and logically structured in order convey meaning in the best way.

Which I go onto argue leads to a universal language to the exclusion of all others. I suppose this isn't exactly interpretative charity. And I'm certainly ignoring other arguments!

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