I believe that while we can identify people who seek to rise to the challenge of being a "language authority", no one can succeed in becoming one, as the responsibility that comes with that title is too much great to take it yourself. The only “authority” that guides the changes undergone by a language is the entire body of everyday speakers, who unconsciously push it towards an innate model that they have incorporated into their minds. First, we must note that although language is a tool that we use to convey meanings and exchange ideas between members of the same community, everyone has a unique copy of this tool: what we call "common language" is actually a collection of mutually intelligible dialects that we created after learning the language and gradually perfected using it. Because the process of language acquisition is unique to each speaker, so is the final product. For example, the meanings we give to generic words vary from individual to individual1, as they must encompass a class of objects rather than a single element. This aspect allows for small differences in the exact meaning of a word: what I consider to be a chair may not be one in someone else's English version, but that doesn't mean we lack a common general notion of what a chair should be like – even if small details can differ, the “big picture” is always the same. Therefore language exists only as a concept that encompasses all generally accepted and employed ways of conveying meaning and cannot be the special property of anyone in its entirety2 – since we are the only users of our personal dialect, we know more about it than anyone else ever could do so, meaning that no one can claim jurisdiction over any version of the language other than their own. Furthermore, Plato's "Cratylus"... in the center of the card... plays the only authoritative figure role if we take Chomsky's theory into consideration. In short, we do not have linguistic authority in the conventional sense of the word. What we have is the natural governing power of public control, unified under the theory of universal grammar. What remains for the conscious mind to handle – noting the evolution of language – is still too difficult to handle, as history has shown numerous times, but we should still keep trying, as these efforts strengthen the unity of language along with the direct effects of our innate sense of syntax. Therefore, we can accurately say that the only linguistic authority we have is the combined influence of all speakers of a language and their only role is to instinctively advance the language towards the grammatical model embedded in our brain..