"Many of them, whether alive or recently deceased, have pointed out mistakes, impoverishments and trivialisations of the language, only to find that the now-dominant sector of the academy the anything goes' Taliban ignores them or treats them as respectable, but irrelevant, opinions. That is really serious because writers don't just preserve the language, they work with it and project it into the future."
"One of Spain's best-known novelists has launched a withering attack on the country's leading linguistic authority, saying it ignores the opinions of writers when it comes to changes in language, and that its anything goes Taliban yields instead to social media, commentators, influencers. Arturo Perez-Reverte used a column in Monday's El Mundo to accuse the Spanish Royal Academy (RAE) of which he is a member of failing to live up to the mission laid out its celebrated motto of cleaning, fixing and giving shine to the Spanish language."
A prominent novelist accuses the Spanish Royal Academy of ignoring writers' opinions on language change and of failing its mission to clean, fix and give shine to Spanish. The critique asserts that illiterate pundits, YouTubers, and influencers can now exert more linguistic influence than prize-winning writers. Professional writers who are academy members reportedly find their corrections dismissed by a dominant 'anything goes' faction. The academy's role of ensuring language changes do not break Hispanic unity is cited, with concern that validating majority usage without rigorous debate erodes the notion of correctness and yields to external pressure.
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