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		shashashasha on Dec 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticula... <3 <3 We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"

heyitsnick on Dec 5, 2013 [–]

Perhaps more accurately put, the "English language has no master."

Many--perhaps most--European languages, do have prescriptivist masters. Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and dozens more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators

kalensh on Dec 5, 2013 | [–]

Even then, those "masters" only have limited control of the language.

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