07 Jul, 2008
English language genercide: the power of popular usage.
Posted by: robertstevenson In: Interesting stuff| Life| Thoughts
In one of my first posts titled Evolving Language, we saw that with over 600,000 words, English contains more words than any language in human history. That posts explored how the English language acquires new words. This post adds another dimension; it is another piece to the puzzle we call the English language. In the [...]
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