I don’t quite see you point. Yes, language has intrinsic rules. But language is also dynamic. Those rules can be changed. Forcing change for the sake of change is sometimes needed and welcome. Otherwise, there would be no “laptop”, “laser” would still be an acronym and everyone would write “gaol” instead of “jail”. There’s a reason the proposed shortening from “though” to “tho” still hasn’t dropped out of usage yet.
Language adapts to fulfill the needs of the users. After all, it is the best communication tool we have. Prescriptivism doesn’t help improve the “complete mess” of a language, it just forces it to become outdated. We need neologisms, grammar changes, spelling reforms and so on.
Notice none of your proposed examples deal with the grammatical structure (syntax, semantics, morphological relationship), only with lexical variety. An apt comparison is as follows: now, plural words in English end in “r”.
Okay, bad examples from my side. Changes that affect grammatical structure might be “bro” becoming popular as a pronoun, new tense structure found in Modern Mandarin or plural adjustments like German Kakteen > Kaktusse. Grammatical structure changes just as much as other aspects of a language.
I don’t quite see you point. Yes, language has intrinsic rules. But language is also dynamic. Those rules can be changed. Forcing change for the sake of change is sometimes needed and welcome. Otherwise, there would be no “laptop”, “laser” would still be an acronym and everyone would write “gaol” instead of “jail”. There’s a reason the proposed shortening from “though” to “tho” still hasn’t dropped out of usage yet.
Language adapts to fulfill the needs of the users. After all, it is the best communication tool we have. Prescriptivism doesn’t help improve the “complete mess” of a language, it just forces it to become outdated. We need neologisms, grammar changes, spelling reforms and so on.
Notice none of your proposed examples deal with the grammatical structure (syntax, semantics, morphological relationship), only with lexical variety. An apt comparison is as follows: now, plural words in English end in “r”.
Okay, bad examples from my side. Changes that affect grammatical structure might be “bro” becoming popular as a pronoun, new tense structure found in Modern Mandarin or plural adjustments like German Kakteen > Kaktusse. Grammatical structure changes just as much as other aspects of a language.