Language is any means of communication among a group. If my throat meat vibrates, and a thought comes in your brain, and that’s the thought I wanted in your brain, then that is communication. If a group of people share a communication, that’s a dialect. A group of dialects where you can understand most of it between each other is called language.
And at no point does the language dictate what communication is, It’s the other way around.
So English has been devolved by vapid influencers anew.
Language purists are veebs. Communication changes. The definition of language is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Depends on the language, the context, and the application. Sometimes language IS prescriptively defined. Language is more than just casual speech.
Language is any means of communication among a group. If my throat meat vibrates, and a thought comes in your brain, and that’s the thought I wanted in your brain, then that is communication. If a group of people share a communication, that’s a dialect. A group of dialects where you can understand most of it between each other is called language.
And at no point does the language dictate what communication is, It’s the other way around.
When is language prescriptively defined? Even the French academy can’t stop language drift, despite all their prescribing about it.
Veeb isn’t a real word.
You either don’t get my point, or you very much get my point. And I cannot tell which.
Sometimes language is subjective. >:D
Ugh …
*Reluctantly changes down vote to up vote-
Some of those I’ve never seen hyphenated in 30 years of being an avid reader. And some of the corrections I see listed, I’ve seen used the other way.
But I’m sure they read more broadly than I do.