Posted: Dec 01, 2010 2:41 pm
katja z wrote:Fallible, I agree with all of this, I was just making the point that a completely laissez-faire language policy is not really an option nowadays, not for our official languages anyway, and that teaching the language norm in schools is still top-down "meddling" to an extent, so it is difficult sometimes to know just where the line should be drawn.
I don't advocate a completely laissez-faire policy - teaching the basic rules is necessary to enable us all to communicate effectively when we are just starting out. But the evolution of language has continued and will continue even with the teaching of a standard in place. Even since I was at school, the language and its teaching has moved on. I was just calling for once in my life for the continuation of the status quo, and against attempts to purposely reform the language.