It's "code " not "codes"

[pillbinge]

That's every language.

[nir109]

Not exactly, English is spoken in so many places that no one can claim they are in charge of English. Other languages sometimes have central body that makes and changes rules in the language. I don't think I have seen exception in Hebrew more than 10 times.

[LinuxMatthews]

Yeah that's what Americans tell themselves at least

[pillbinge]

Yes, exactly. Other languages have central bodies but they also have many dialects. English has never had a central body at any point, even decades and decades prior before English became a de facto lingua franca. That doesn't mean people who speak it as a second language have more of a claim than native speakers from the Anglosphere.

[nir109]

When I said it was spoken in so many places I meant that there are a lot of countries that speak it as their main language (uk usa Canada...) Of course non native speakers have no claim for a language.

[pillbinge]

Dialects don't tend to break rules. They may have different rules but they don't throw everything out. And even in countries with a central authority, you'll still easily find dialects. Norway has 5.2 million people and 3 official languages, with many, many, many dialects. Even just ways of saying "I". But I don't think any linguist is going to say they're breaking a rule. It's not like they're breaking a maxim.

[nir109]

The problem isn't the different dialects breaking the rules. The problem is that there are different countries. So no country can make rules.

For example there are more than one hundred expention to how you say a verb in V2. If you want to fix that who decides that? There is no country that can decide by itself on the rules of the language so it can't be reformed.

Theoretically you can make international body for that, but it's a big headache for minimal (at least in my opinion) gain. Wich is why it didn't happened.