Language cannot be dictated, perhabs be a little bit preserved through writing down the rules and dictionaries and such. But language-conservatives might try as hard as they want - language will change, its inevitable. Thats why people just a few hundreds of years ago may have spoken technically the same language but we wouldnt understand a sentence... maybe a few words if we try.
To your last sentence... I remember a legal move by Lego that they did against a small LEGO-Shop owner in Germany (he has his own youtube channel where he shows various lego models but also competitors), where he called the bricks of competitors also lego as a general term so to speak and ohh boy... Lego did NOT like that and sued him :D ; it became a little bit of meme and since then we have the german meme were we redicule lego for that ^^
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u/Semthepro I am fucking hilarious Jul 30 '24
Language cannot be dictated, perhabs be a little bit preserved through writing down the rules and dictionaries and such. But language-conservatives might try as hard as they want - language will change, its inevitable. Thats why people just a few hundreds of years ago may have spoken technically the same language but we wouldnt understand a sentence... maybe a few words if we try.
To your last sentence... I remember a legal move by Lego that they did against a small LEGO-Shop owner in Germany (he has his own youtube channel where he shows various lego models but also competitors), where he called the bricks of competitors also lego as a general term so to speak and ohh boy... Lego did NOT like that and sued him :D ; it became a little bit of meme and since then we have the german meme were we redicule lego for that ^^