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Originally Posted by TGS
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.
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I didn't mention an institution, that was Falcoa. I responded to "language police". Do we not correct children when they speak? There are rules in grammar and technically, if we all followed said rules we would communicating to the best of our abilities. Its just "easier" to be lazy, and that laziness is passed on and eventually accepted. Although I am just as guilty in the process, I still find that there is something wrong there.