So the only power such bodies have is being able to influence the entirety of the next generation of the speakers of the language? That's surely some amount of power that nobody holds whatsoever on the English language. Israel was able to use the educational system to revive a millenia-dead old language, that's quite a lot of power.
I meant the direct influence would only be noticeable after decades, but because of media and social pressure after a few years most adult people switched.
