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Words, words. Loads of new ones
Mon, 12/14/2020
By Jean Godden
If Shakespeare were around today, he d have a heck of a time understanding us. While we still do speak English, the language he used writing the world s most famous plays, we ve been mighty busy since then adding new words and using old ones in novel ways.
English is a living language, always changing, more dynamic and expressive. As playwright Will knew, language is not meant to be static. He himself added 1700 words to the then young language (Elizabethan English), words like bandit, critic, swagger, scuffle, grovel, madcap and zany.
Like all languages, English evolves from three main influences: (1) movement of people from other locations, (2) the influence of technology, and (3) appropriation of useful foreign words like tsunami, avatar, schadenfreude and kitschy. ....

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