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''' wrote:In australia, as in most english speaking countries, people don't care enough about their language to try and preserve it. There I really would have to start ground up. Fortunately at uni you can find some people with IQ high enough to support prescriptivism. My plan would be taking the queens english society and promoting it. Who knows, with enough publicity they might attract a large enough following to have real power.
Talib wrote:What if we encourage it to grow by coining new Hungarianisms? Where does that fall?
That's pretty anecdotal.TeneReef wrote:Puristic languages are stuffy.
Compare two Dravidian languages: Malayalam (not puristic) and Tamil (puristic)
Malayalam has higher literacy rates, more newspapers and more Indian state literature awards.
People like reading in Malayalam because the language used in very contemporary.
In Tamil Nadu, the written language is 13th century Tamil and people are not too comfortable with enjoying it, they read in English instead.
Nejimakidori wrote:Yes, "authority" and "colleague" are by far the easiest for me
Nejimakidori wrote:Yes, "authority" and "colleague" are by far the easiest for me
Talib wrote:That's pretty anecdotal.TeneReef wrote:Puristic languages are stuffy.
Compare two Dravidian languages: Malayalam (not puristic) and Tamil (puristic)
Malayalam has higher literacy rates, more newspapers and more Indian state literature awards.
People like reading in Malayalam because the language used in very contemporary.
In Tamil Nadu, the written language is 13th century Tamil and people are not too comfortable with enjoying it, they read in English instead.
Yasha wrote:Puristic languages are supposed to be easier to learn. Let's look at examples in English. We have "authority" and "leadership", or "colleague" and "workmate". It's obvious which of these are easier to understand.
KingHarvest wrote:I don't know about you, but I don't generally have problems understanding pretty basic vocabulary.
Yasha wrote:What I meant was that if a native speaker of English had never seen those four words before, the person would at least be able to guess the meaning of leadership and workmate.
linguoboy wrote:That person would also likely be able to take a stab at "colleague" and "authority", given that "league" and "author" aren't exactly obscure.
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