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How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Intelligence Squared
Language Is a Fixed Thing, Not a Fixation
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The Queen's English of 40 years ago is more like what the common people would speak. She has moved the way she uses her vowels, but so has the people on the street. What it indicates is that our own language changes and we don't even know it ourselves. As distinctions get blurred, new words start to take their place expressing the thing we want to express with. These new fangled words are not proper words at all - there's a general suspicion they're eroding.
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