Language has evolved beyond the need for descriptivist evolution, universal literacy and global instantaneous communication networks require standardization, and eventually, a constructed universal language. Those trying to hold on to preindustrial modes of cultural development will only be left behind by the sands of time. That’s why we already did all of that to weights and measures.
Language evolves with the masses, if the majority of people think a word means something, that is what it will become regardless of any prior meaning.
Those who try to tie it down will only be left behind by the sands of time.
Language has evolved beyond the need for descriptivist evolution, universal literacy and global instantaneous communication networks require standardization, and eventually, a constructed universal language. Those trying to hold on to preindustrial modes of cultural development will only be left behind by the sands of time. That’s why we already did all of that to weights and measures.