A Royal Academy of the English Language
There is a Royal Academy of Music (the building in the picture is where that academy is), but there is not a Royal Academy of the English Language and probably there will never be.
For some reason the British never showed any interest to create one and if there was, this idea did not prosper. The Americans have quite often considered the necessity to create a governing body, some sort of regulator of their language in the same style as Spanish that has La Real Academia de la Lengua, (French and Italian are governed by similar institutions), but in the end that notion has always been considered antidemocratic: a few selected would make decisions that everyone else would have to comply with.
English is really worked out by the speakers themselves and then if there are modifications of great importance, if permanent and trascendental, then those changes are collected by the dictionaries who somehow make that official. This is the way that English has evolved through all these years and what perhaps explains why it is so dynamic.
Which system is the best?
It seems that both have worked just fine all this time and because of that neither will there be an English Royal Academy nor will La Real Academia will disappear, at least not in the near future.
For some reason the British never showed any interest to create one and if there was, this idea did not prosper. The Americans have quite often considered the necessity to create a governing body, some sort of regulator of their language in the same style as Spanish that has La Real Academia de la Lengua, (French and Italian are governed by similar institutions), but in the end that notion has always been considered antidemocratic: a few selected would make decisions that everyone else would have to comply with.
English is really worked out by the speakers themselves and then if there are modifications of great importance, if permanent and trascendental, then those changes are collected by the dictionaries who somehow make that official. This is the way that English has evolved through all these years and what perhaps explains why it is so dynamic.
Which system is the best?
It seems that both have worked just fine all this time and because of that neither will there be an English Royal Academy nor will La Real Academia will disappear, at least not in the near future.
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