Ray Saintonge wrote:
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.
Ray,
Here is not same situation, In all publications or education there must
be followed rules thats are called "Pravopis" and they are in some part
very strict. As this is not my field and I have trouble to talk about
it on English, I hope you will understand at least some of this. Our
language is very different from English as there are many rules (because
many native English speakers have problem to learn our language). One
example there are "Rodovi" which change construction of sentence, which
in English is absent. This is based on ( Him, She, it).
Darko Bulatovic