And they were right, too. Language is far more homogenous these days than it's ever been. As for the parent commenter's point, as we encode in software what "correct" language sounds like, it will naturally exert pressure to conform to whatever notion of "correct" that you chose; conformity is literally what things like spellcheck are for. And it's not necessarily a bad thing for languages to be more uniform, especially from the perspective of non-native speakers, but it remains true that it will constrain the future mutation of the language, even if it won't totally halt it.
Specially from the perspective of non-native speakers.
Mind you, non-native speakers tend to involuntarily stretch and bend the language this way and that. It’s when somebody else in society uses that involuntary bending and stretching to mark and segregate foreigners that tools like Grammarly come handy. And, that’s my grudge with Grammarly: to me, most of its suggestions read as “you are not writing pureblood, your written mongrel will earn you the scorn of your betters.”
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And they were right, too. Language is far more homogenous these days than it's ever been. As for the parent commenter's point, as we encode in software what "correct" language sounds like, it will naturally exert pressure to conform to whatever notion of "correct" that you chose; conformity is literally what things like spellcheck are for. And it's not necessarily a bad thing for languages to be more uniform, especially from the perspective of non-native speakers, but it remains true that it will constrain the future mutation of the language, even if it won't totally halt it.
Mind you, non-native speakers tend to involuntarily stretch and bend the language this way and that. It’s when somebody else in society uses that involuntary bending and stretching to mark and segregate foreigners that tools like Grammarly come handy. And, that’s my grudge with Grammarly: to me, most of its suggestions read as “you are not writing pureblood, your written mongrel will earn you the scorn of your betters.”
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