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Language Changes And Moves In A Different Direction Evolving All The Time. Where A Lot Of People See Deterioration, I See Expressive Development

Language Has No Independent Existence Apart From The People Who Use It. It Is Not An End In Itself; It Is A Means To An End Of Understanding Who You Are And What Society Is Like.

Ever Since The Arrival Of Printing - Thought To Be The Invention Of The Devil Because It Would Put False Opinions Into People's Minds - People Have Been Arguing That New Technology Would Have Disastrous Consequences For Language.

It Took Three Years To Put Shakespeare's Words Together, There Were A Lot Of Words To Be Studied And A Lot Of Words To Be Sorted Out, And It Proved To Be A Major Project.

Several Of Us Linguists At That Time Would Record Our Own Kids, Just To Get Some Data. There Was Some Literature On It Then, But No Day-by-day, Blow-by-blow Examples. I Recorded All My Children Over The Years In Some Shape Or Form. It's What Linguists Do. You Don't Talk To A Linguist Without Having What You Say Taken Down And Used In Evidence Against You At Some Point In Time.