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- Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
- Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
- English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and…
- Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of…
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