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> I hear "language evolves over time!" quite a lot, as if it's a law of nature, but I've never heard anyone question the statement to determine whether it's tru
by TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
> I hear "language evolves over time!" quite a lot, as if it's a law of nature, but I've never heard anyone question the statement to determine whether it's true or why it would be true.
Have you heard of linguistics? Language changes all the time. Languages changes constantly. The word silly once meant "blessed by God".
Like, this is so obvious and so well known that I just have to assume you're trolling here.
- zarathustreal 3y agoYou'll get a lot further in life by assuming you don't understand than assuming others are trolling. Indeed, sometimes it's the only way to get information from data. In this case you don't seem to have understood the context in which the phrase in question is often uttered. The context is politics. Power dynamics. Changing the definitions of words to change what is possible to be expressed with language. Not the natural kind of language evolution that happens over generations due to misunderstandings or new inventions.