Monday, 29 February 2016

Language Change (revision).

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/06/language-fashion-weather-speak


Shariatmadari uses hyperlinks to add more information in his article, to express more than one technique and uses references to Simon Heffer to offer a wider range of reading for people who are interested in the idea that language is constantly changing. He uses fashion change as an example to compare it to language change. Stating in his article that people who wore boot cut jeans and said wicked in the 90s changed in the 2000s, as the jeans got tighter and people said sick instead, this shows that the prefix 'super' had stuck and expresses that the initial idea of either clothing or language is still being shown through the development of the idea.


Wine - Whine Merge
Merging phonemes was unacceptable in educated speech, however, until the late 18th century.


Simon Heffer