This sort of thing is even more egregious in Spanish were the RAE (Royal Academy of Spanish) exists to dictates on what's the proper way of using Spanish. It's so tiring because not only does the institution not function as an actual academy, but also have no real claim to be the custodians language. Many scholars of related fields like linguists tend to agree that when RAE makes their dictionaries, they are not properly sourced nor coherent in providing a real guide for standarisation. They act more as means of how historically one section of the old Spanish kingdoms favored the higher class manner of speaking than the rest. Thst sort of rift created even more resentment and has remained today. The curious thing is that out of all Spanish speaking regions today, the one that tends to make more emphasis on this is Latin America more than Spain itself. I think it's a holdover of showing your class we're people feel the need to separate themselves from the rest. Classism is more entrenched around here. Their biggest fumble is trying to grasp the reality that the dictionary is not there to tell people how to use the language but rather is a mean to comprehend how people use the language.
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BBC English sounds crazy
It is!
This sort of thing is even more egregious in Spanish were the RAE (Royal Academy of Spanish) exists to dictates on what's the proper way of using Spanish.
It's so tiring because not only does the institution not function as an actual academy, but also have no real claim to be the custodians language. Many scholars of related fields like linguists tend to agree that when RAE makes their dictionaries, they are not properly sourced nor coherent in providing a real guide for standarisation. They act more as means of how historically one section of the old Spanish kingdoms favored the higher class manner of speaking than the rest. Thst sort of rift created even more resentment and has remained today.
The curious thing is that out of all Spanish speaking regions today, the one that tends to make more emphasis on this is Latin America more than Spain itself. I think it's a holdover of showing your class we're people feel the need to separate themselves from the rest. Classism is more entrenched around here.
Their biggest fumble is trying to grasp the reality that the dictionary is not there to tell people how to use the language but rather is a mean to comprehend how people use the language.
Interesting. The use of language to reinforce classism is very widespread.