Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
yata@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoIt may not make sense because English isn’t a language designed to make sense; it isn’t even designed.
To be fair, no living language is.
Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
yata@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoIt may not make sense because English isn’t a language designed to make sense; it isn’t even designed.
To be fair, no living language is.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
French is heavily managed by the Académie, I guess it depends how you interpret “designed”. English is a much freer language that morphs and absorbs terms from many languages.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I wonder how much of the managed-language sticks vs the emergent-language. I recall years ago there was news of how the academie made up their own word for email.