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Originally Posted by Nyssa
Knowledge can save the world! We've had enough stupid people mess it up. Communication is a key, and how can one communicate properly without a proper command of language, especially their own?
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For most of the history of human languages there were no national academies and language seems to have developed quite well. The purpose of the institutions of the type you mention seems to be to ossify language at a particular stage of development - usually one that reflects the interests of the powerful in society at a particular stage in history. None of which has got anything to do with knowledge acquisition, development and dissemination.