Official regulation of English

[Hortence]

Originally Posted by SUDHKAMP

Languages and its words are coined in common man's tongue mint. Any effort to regulate such process would prove counter productive for the language.

These are words of wisdom.

[philo2009]

Originally Posted by Hortence

These are words of wisdom.

They are also words of appallingly bad grammar, not to mention partially meaningless (there is no such thing as a 'tongue mint')!

Rather undermines his argument, I would say!

[SUDHKAMP]

Originally Posted by philo2009

They are also words of appallingly bad grammar, not to mention partially meaningless (there is no such thing as a 'tongue mint')!

Rather undermines his argument, I would say!

Perhaps only if you had cared to put your thought in the matter, you would follow what I have said.

[Anglika]

Originally Posted by philo2009

They are also words of appallingly bad grammar, not to mention partially meaningless (there is no such thing as a 'tongue mint')!

Rather undermines his argument, I would say!

We do prefer posters to avoid being personal in comment if at all possible.

Seemed a colourful way of describing language and maintained the simile of coining / mint.

[konungursvia]

I agree with Anglika.