Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Linguistic Change

When people use the phrase evolution of language, people generally mean change over along period, perhaps thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.

But people may also be interested in linguistics change over a much shorter period. Patterns of language within any society differ now from those that prevailed a few centuries ago or even a generation ago.

As we know if we read an old text such as Chaucer’s Canterbury tales or even an older version of Bible, speech patterns can change rather drastically in a relatively short time.

In the jargon of today, how do we describe something that is spectacular? The slang of the author’s generation included such words as groovy, neat and keen. This is linguistic archeology and evokes laughter among today’s teenager.
Linguistic Change

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