Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Chris Bates :
>
>
>> I myself am encouraged by the variation in grammar within the esperanto
>> community, because only dead languages are completely uniform. :) It
>> seems to me that differences in usage is an indication that the language
>> is alive.
>
>
> If only the people at the French Academy discovered that...
What, they criticise the way people talk? I thought they (and all such
Academies) were limited to the written language.

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