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  Poughkeepsie is pronounced "p'kipsee"
  Cordial is pronounced "cor-di-el"
  Psychology is pronounced "sci-col-o-gee"
  Conclusion: English is an abomination, because how you say it and how you spell it are in many cases totally distinct
  
  Silent letters exist in multiple languages. Look up egg in french as an example.
  
  "Awesome", which used to be used only with divine intervention, now often is used to mean simply "okay by me".
  "Literally" is used to mean it's opposite: "figuratively"." 
  Fuggedaboutit", instead of having the literal meaning "you should forget this", means, er, awesome ;)
  
  These are anecdotes, awesome isn't "okay by me" in the dictionary, neither have litteraly and figurativly switched meaning.
  Fuggedaboutit is dialect which isn't the standard english that is taught in schools in any case.
  You are arguing how other people use language. And that is not a point that can or should be changed.
  
  In France, the French have the "Académie Française" which functions as the official custodian of the French language. I think if English speaking countries HAD SOMETHING similar, English would be easier to teach and understand. In France, the language also stands as a cultural symbol - why not try to turn English into the same?
  
  Maybe because the scope of it is too big to handle? You've got at least 3 major countries talking english in their own way with their own rules as standard english.
  And the size of france isn't comparable to the size of the usa.
  But you do have standard english already, it's the english taught in schools, used for official communications and used in the papers.
  And I do have to say "academie anglese" I don't know if you tried to do it in a french twist or what. But anglese doesn't exist unless you are talking about the dogbreed or the guitar chord. It's anglais in french. If you want to be pedantic about language use then others will do the same. But it mostly just crashes into your whole cmv if you write it like that.
  Dialect and coloqualisms aren't a thing to throw away imo. They add character and panache to a personality.
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  The Académie Française is a shitty institution that, amongst other things, objected to acknowledging the regional languages that already existed in France. The French shouldn't even have it, so the idea definitely shouldn't spread.
  Plus, like. Which country gets to decide how all the other anglophone countries gets to talk? Because whatever answer you pick will piss off everyone else. >
  
  They also tried to ban the word eSport. >
  
  They dislike loanwords, yeah.
  Fundamentally, this idea of a top-down language is just completely contrary to how languages actually work. >
  
  Except Korean, which was invented by a single person >
  
  Korean writing system was invented by a single person, not the Korean language. >
  
  Many poets prefer the English language because of its uniqueness in this regard. It can make things sound and look different than they should. >
  
  This is a good point