Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

[Timothy Murphy]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

> There's no such thing as technical correctness when it comes to (human)
> languages.

That may be true of English, but is it true of all languages?
The Academie Francaise tries to tell the world what is correct in French;
I don't know how many people listen to them.
I imagine that during the unifications of Germany and Italy
the governments took a fairly strong line on grammar.
And what about China?
I guess the push to Mandarin comes with fairly strong sanctions.
I saw the other day that the government there
is trying to ban the use of English words.

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