Who would of thought it? The English language 1966-2066
Session details: Complaints about a supposed decline in standards of English
continue to be made, with increasing frequency, in the British press.
Although these are nothing new - as the long history of use of would of
for would have illustrates - they do draw attention to the way we seem to be
going through a period of unusually rapid
language change. This paper
illustrates the main changes in pronunciation, orthography, grammar, and
vocabulary, discusses the chief factors involved - social mobility, globalization,
and the Internet - and compares the changes that have taken place in the
past fifty years with those that are likely to take place in the next
fifty.
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