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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

English is descriptive, not proscriptive.

Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations?

(Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed, you're correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of