Language reform

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Why are people still arguing about a script reform from a century ago? How does a standards body agree on the vocabulary for a brand-new field? What makes a proposed spelling change collapse before it ever reaches a classroom? Why do some feminist language reforms succeed and others get mocked? Why did Korean drop Chinese characters and then bring some of them back? What does the script subtag in a BCP 47 tag actually control? How are new signs invented and then standardized? Who decides that a whole country will write its language differently? Why do some language codes have two letters and others three? Who decides what the official term for a new technology will be? How do you settle on one term when three are already in circulation? How do you design a writing system for a language that has never had one? Why do Korean and Vietnamese write their languages so differently today? Why do whole scripts get abandoned? How do sign languages handle technical vocabulary in science and law?

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