On 11/29/06, Darko Bulatovic <mail(a)itam.ws>
wrote:
geni wrote:
Not so much. there are a number of different forms
of English and yet
it is accepted that there is only one language. In some areas "thou"
still exists. In others colour is spelled color. What standisation
there is is often not goverment mandated.
--- in mayor cases Academies( or similar institutions) are working on
language standardisation. So that are working under Goverment policy on
educational and science level. Freedom in that filed is also regulated
on Goverment level, so in any case it is political meter. On that level
I was talking about.
Historically things have been somewhat different.
Please check this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(spelling)
Part of text: This table gives the accepted spellings (following
*government *guidelines and major dictionaries).
Governments at the present time are one of the few groups to produce
enough material to need to create manuals of style. that does not mean
they are required for standardisation of language
Governments also need style manuals for official publications, but these
do not have the force of law for non-governmental operations. Our
schools never make reference to any kind of official spelling or grammar
when teaching children. English, more than any other language is based
on history, custom and usage. There is such a thing as poor language
skills for native speakers, but one feature that makes it very difficult
for the health of other languages is the easy acceptance by English of
ways of speaking drawn from other languages.