January 13, 2010 10:06:30
Posted By P & L Blog
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All languages evolve. Ten years ago we didn't "friend" people, we had friends. We searched, we didn't "Google". Phones were phones, they weren't "smart". When non-native speakers use English for business and online, they often use the language differently. Will that eventually influence the way the rest of us use English? Jack Lynch makes an interesting prediction in his book "The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, From Shakespeare to 'South Park'": "All the signs point to a fundamentally reconfigured world, in which what we now think of as the English-speaking world will eventually lose its effective control of the English language." Do you think this will happen?
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