Seriously? A false dichotomy?PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 10:34 pm If everyone spoke their own private form of gibberish communication would only be difficult?
Clearly you don't bother to think these things through very well.
If everybody spoke a language with static/prescribed semantics no new knowledge, ideas or perspectives could ever be introduced into it.
Methinks the one who lacks perspective is the one who's been stuck in academia all their life. All thought - zero real-world experience.
Language evolves - exactly as it should and when it should. Arbitrary, self-imposed rules harm evolution/adaptation.
All you are trying to do is to impose an authority on language, when all authorities are made up. You suffer from a terrible case of linguistic prescriptivism.