Language in sentence

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I do, however, collect new words much the way dictionary editors do, and the great thing about being a historian of the English language is that I get to call this "research."

When I teach the history of the English language, I require that students teach me two new slang words before I will begin class.

Here's the thing: If you ask dictionary editors, what they'll tell you is they're just trying to keep up with us as we change the language.

Are you bothered by language fads and language change, or do you find it fun, interesting, something worthy of study as part of a living language?

Now, it's not that dictionary editors ignore these kinds of attitudes about language.

Ah, the Usage Panel, that trusted body of language authorities who is getting more lenient about this.

We are not a language academy.

I do not listen to my own likes and dislikes about the English language.

Now, there are going to be changes that all of us don't like in the language.

Does the language have to change that way?"

What I'm saying is, we should be less quick to decide that that change is terrible, we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people, and we should be entirely reluctant to think that the English language is in trouble.

The language is not going to change so fast that we can't keep up.

Language just doesn't work that way.

I hope that what you can do is find language change not worrisome but fun and fascinating, just the way dictionary editors do.

I hope you can enjoy being part of the creativity that is continually remaking our language and keeping it robust.

In my native language, that is Italian, "beautiful" is "bello."

In one condition, the computer picked from a dictionary of the very common words in the English language, and so you'd get pass phrases like "try there three come."

They married Frankish women, adopted the French language, and soon started converting from Norse paganism to Christianity.

Norman French became the language of the new royal court, while commoners continued to speak Anglo-Saxon.

Arabic remained an official language along with Latin, Greek, and Norman French.

And today, from the castles and cathedrals that dot Europe’s landscape to wherever the English language is spoken, the Norman legacy lives on.

Now, ChucK is a programming language for music, and it's open-source, it's freely available, and I like to think that it crashes equally well on all modern operating systems.

It demeans our language, actually, sometimes.

Because I know what one language looks like, I can recognize other languages even when I'm not familiar with them.

Kai-Fu Lee: And maybe in another language?

They even studied the universal principles of polite language, which I didn't even actually know existed until this research happened.

I'm provided specific suggested language that helps me communicate to Laura how the photo makes me feel.

According to a 2009 survey of Arabic language media resources, between 2004 and 2008, no more than 15 percent of al Qaeda's victims were Westerners.

So I had the privilege of watching "Naang Wal," which was a musical in the Punjabi language, and the girls of Lahore Grammar School played all the parts.

But when I was told that the topic was language, I felt that I had to speak about something for a moment.

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