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But is this really how language evolves?
Language evolves with us, and that fact must be kept in mind even in the entertainment section of a newspaper.
Of course, language evolves, and as a word-lover I'm all for that, but it seems to be evolving in the wrong direction.
But while it's axiomatic that language evolves, it's in the nature of dictionaries to lag at least one step behind that evolution.
Sokolowski told me that the Internet hasn't altered the rate at which language evolves — it's just made this evolution a process that people can watch develop in real time much more clearly than ever before.
Bakhtin further developed this theory of polyphony, or "dialogics," in Voprosy literatury i estetiki (1975; The Dialogic Imagination), in which he postulated that, rather than being static, language evolves dynamically and is affected by and affects the culture that produces and uses it.
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Discovering that humanized mice whistle differently may seem a long way from understanding how language evolved.
As language evolved, Fowler lamented losses of precision, not losses of tradition.
As language evolved, humans used the palm-up for more complex ideas.
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