"Languages are invented by the young. And languages are greatly shaped, and changed, and modified by the young as well."
"Priority was singular for 500 years in the English language, meaning the first or very prior thing. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities."
"Political correctness is expanding free speech. We're adding words to the dictionary every year in an effort to promote more inclusive and respectful speech."
"The reason for that is because it was only up until very recently that sex and gender were used interchangeably."
"Almost all of the dialects of the United States are becoming more different from each other, growing and developing in their idiosyncratic features."
"English has evolved into its own thing in India. So, Indian English is a legitimate variety of the English language."
"English is not one big mass; English is fluid and is constantly evolving."
"It's official everyone. The word literally now also means not literally. That is to say, metaphorically."
"Our language is constantly evolving and you were talking about the definition of racism. Our societal definition has changed to include a systemic part of it."
"And once Python is passé and the world has moved on to some other language in some number of years, you'll be well equipped to figure out how to wrap your mind around some new syntax, some new language, and solve problems, as well."
"So just as human languages evolve, so do actual programming languages."
"What does 'yeet' mean? 'Yeet' is a slang term with multiple meanings, but it generally expresses excitement, triumph, or the act of throwing something with a lot of force."
"As long as the language is a good solution to problems that are faced by real programmers in real code, the language will live and grow to meet the needs of the programmers."
"Studying etymology and language history just makes it plain that it's impossible to control language."
"Old-fashioned English is much more like modern formal English."
"Words and definitions do evolve. You know what people can do? Reclaim it."
"Language has the potential to be seen rather than be heard... language is evolving."
"Language evolves... ultimately there's going to be new ways of saying the same goddamn thing."
"But now you can say partner and like it not automatically be associated with they mean someone of the same gender."
"Neo pronouns are just an evolution of language."
"It's just an evolution of language to allow people to refer to themselves outside of the binary."
"Singular they is a great example of a place where we should look back at history to understand the current moment."
"Humans adapted to counter the machines by creating 'captcha English language.'"
"Semanticity comes along gradually of course because it evolves like everything else."
"The future of language: Unlocking new realms of possibility."
"Language evolves this is a concept that I personally understand."
"Yesterday's medical terminology is today's hate speech and today's hate speech is tomorrow's colloquialism."
"Have you or your friends ever said a word so frequently that it's lost a lot of the initial punch that it had and eventually just lost all meaning entirely?"
"It's tonal as well that's an african language using english vocabulary words so it ain't been there in a long time."
"Each time the alphabet moved from one language to another, it produced redundancies and quirks in the letter-to-sound correspondences."
"There's been this mission creep of language... increasingly identifying thoughts as violence or speech as incitement."
"Language changes over time, and this is perfectly normal and fine."
"Words are defined by usage. There is no objectively correct way to use words, and thus their meaning changes between disciplines, countries, and just due to the passage of time."
"I like all the new slang that's coming up. That out that, I'm just because it's getting caught doing dumb shit."
"Lisp is one of the oldest languages being that it was first created in 1958... it keeps getting better and better."
"English language has been a more homogenized language."
"Even the language, saying stuff like 'the matrix' or 'you're red pilled or blue pilled,' that would have been meaningless before the film."
"Language looks the way it does because our brains are uniquely equipped for a very specific kind of language."
"Love of language catches on as you know, and ordinary people at the time started writing down the tales that they'd grown up hearing."
"It's interesting how these new expressions come up in Indian English."
"Dictionaries don't get updated really really quickly it tends to take some time for a word to be normalized before it gets introduced."
"Language itself could have been a fundamental force shaping human evolution."
"Grammar and language does evolve over time, but it evolves according to a coherent set of rules and standards. What we're talking about here is devolution, not evolution."
"Social distancing is gonna become part of our language lexicon that's not going to go away."
"Literally, the old definition of literally got changed to basically what the definition of metaphorically means."
"Yesterday's medical term is today's hate speech."
"The English language is one of the newest languages, if not the newest."
"Latin is an immortal language... it just changed the way it was used."
"Language can be rapidly made, seen, and then discarded again, like we throw away the newspaper. That means it's a really living, vital thing in our world."
"So memes are now, they just have replaced the word joke."
"When did the word 'expert' become almost an insult?"
"The word cringe went from a verb to an adjective."
"They weren't going to invent a pronoun, and so how do you, but it was interesting because over time they started realizing there actually are ways to do this that are intelligible and not bad English."
"I feel like slang has like transformed, like the evolution of slang, it's crazy."
"Dropping those pronouns... It's huge. It's absolutely huge."
"But still how exactly do you arrive at a language from just ordered symbols?"
"I've seen a lot of [ __ ] change in a relatively short time it's sad that words like scary disturbing and gross are now being replaced with the word triggering."
"If this is where all languages came from if English was created at the Tower of Babel then why does it look so different just a couple of hundred or even a thousand years ago?"
"The truth is the truth because it's an actual thing, it's just the language used long ago was different."
"The most profound cultural development... language itself... coaxed out of an evolving primate species."
"So it's interesting that we have this word that pretty much means talking to each other and it evolves into a term that most people now associated with sex."
"NFT has entered the Collins Dictionary... as the word of the year."
"New words expect that new speak dumbing us down for but no uh there will be new I don't know maybe even pictorial kind of uh language or way of writing."
"With the rise of kids speak, we're actually witnessing English's enrichment."
"They invented the English language and it seems like they got it wrong."
"That's how new languages and new language varieties are born."
"Even the Arabic language influenced the formation of English language."
"It's shoveling sand against the tide if you're going to try and hold language in place."
"On Reddit, there's different communities and they'll come up with different slang. You can see the evolution of language there."
"Language co-evolved with our ability to share stories."
"Nobody would say nowadays anything goes in a language, so you wouldn't have a color system in a language that has 12 words for shades of red and one word for every other color."
"C++ 11 is good, C++ 14 is better. Both are in widespread production use."
"I saw this article... 'creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.' People who menstruate? I'm sure there used to be a word for those people."
"...you have cases like this where the script hasn't been standardized and you can also see cases like this letter that is bilingual..."
"Pronunciation can change over time and pronunciation can change by geography."
"Over time, the languages get easier to learn. So how are they doing that? What happens to the language that makes them get easier?"
"To say that languages belong to a family is to say that, and we use this term genetically related, and that means all the languages of the family descend from... they all evolved out of the common single mother language."
"The descent of languages is like the mitotic descent of single-celled organisms, a mother language, a proto language, diverges into its daughter languages, it becomes its daughters."
"Once we discover once we work out the sound change rules, we can do as I mentioned before, we can begin to reconstruct something of an approximation of what the original word would have been and what its meaning would have been in the proto-language."
"The final thing that would make its place names truly unpronounceable was time. Over hundreds of years, locals who were too busy to pronounce all the syllables in 'sester' reduced it to 'stir' to save time."
"In fact since the end of the 1900s instances of dude in British English have absolutely SED SC on."
"We don't use the terms master and slave anymore."
"Do support in English might have come from or been reinforced by Celtic languages."
"If you understand the relationship between sisters and kind of the relationship between mother Middle English to Modern English, there's a you're seeing how languages are connected and how they work."
"The capacity for language evolution is epistemic foraging, a search for new knowledge."
"The essence of language is found in its ever-emerging complexity, not in universal templates."
"Human language is propagated by cultural transmission."
"Languages change, and it is anachronistic for us to expect to find the exact same language we use today 3,000 years in the past."
"But even more important is that the tongue in which Beowulf was written founded modern English, a worldwide international language whose continuing evolution provides a subtlety, vocabulary, and richness far beyond that of any other."
"We never said even when our era nobody was cold. We never said that. That word didn't even exist in the nineties."
"Words have to compete for survival in the environment of our minds."
"That's the struggle for existence: words competing to stay alive in the environment of our minds."
"The arbitrary pairing of sound with meaning evolves through agreement."
"English is already spreading around the world, simplifying into a new form known as Globish."
"In Globish, simplicity and clarity prevail over complexity and formality."
"The vocabulary becomes much more transparent compared with the Old English vocabulary which was so opaque."
"Languages change over time. English is different than it was in Shakespeare's time."
"So, the reality is it was replaced by other words. Italian 'giallo' goes back to the old French form of 'jaune.' I don't know what it was in Old French, but basically 'jaune' and 'giallo' originally go back to a Latin word meaning yellowish-greenish."
"We keep changing our language around things, and that's a good thing because it stops us from being desensitized."
"Language changes quickly, like incredibly quickly."
"Language is always changing; it's always growing."
"Pidgins and creoles have been misunderstood and misrepresented for a very long time."
"The language is always evolving, and that's what allows the language to grow."
"It's a combination of picking where a language actually begins and populations separating and no longer having contact with one another that really lets those differences shine."
"Language is like a tide, constantly changing; it ebbs and flows, bringing in new words and taking out others in a natural and progressive way."
"Language change may occur in two ways: internal changes within the language and external changes due to changing social context, ideologies, technology, and inventions."
"Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."
"Every once in a while a word gets stolen from the English language and from that point onward it takes on a totally different meaning."
"The Arabic language was in existence long before the emergence of the script that we call Arabic."
"Evidently, Arabic's time had come."
"...we can't really stop language change."
"The English language is in a constant state of evolution."
"The meaning of 'guys' has changed over time."
"Remember when 'friend' wasn't a verb?"
"I prefer to adapt to changes in language rather than remaining stuck in the old ways."
"Pronunciation, grammar, sentence structure, and other English conventions have a tendency to change from country to country and even city to city within the same country."
"As the English language evolves, many of the words and phrases we use become antiquated."
"C plus plus is very similar to C, except that they've added lots of stuff on top of it, like object-oriented programming."
"It's believed that language developed well over a hundred thousand years before even the simplest forms of writing."
"Both the dialects we're comparing have preserved different things and also innovated different things."
"It's funny how the lingo just changes."
"Language is always breaking down and building itself back up."
"The pronunciation systems of languages will change fairly quickly over the course of decades and centuries."
"Language is productive and changes, and people make up new words all the time."
"We have to change our language all the time to accommodate things that we learn about people."
"Language change is a phenomenon by which permanent alterations are made to the features and the use of language over time."
"Functional theory suggests that language always changes and adapts to its uses, along with the changes in industry and technology fueling the demand for neologisms."
"To summarize, lexical items enrich and develop the language as they allow for new development and understanding."
"This has left several traces on the English language, especially on those loanwords that were borrowed from Norman French into English."
"I think the way that English developed, it took a bit of romance languages but it also took a bit of the Germanic languages as well."
"Language change does not imply language degeneration."
"English is no longer the English man's, like cricket, we now control it."
"Of course, the answer to how it got this way is history: lots of accumulated small events in the lives of people and how they speak."
"People got so used to saying 'iced cream' quicker and quicker, we eventually naturally dropped the 'Ed' at the end."
"English is roughly broken into three progressions: Old English, Middle English, and Modern English."
"Despite all of this, we have created a dialect of English that is uniquely ours."
"Words were thus created; these primitive elements of language became little by little the gestures of sensibility."
"Correct usage, namely as tacit evolving conventions."
"The term 'Murzyn' had evolved to become a pejorative term and should not be used."
"Humans are constantly finding fault or opportunities for improvement in languages that we've used for years."
"We want to make a better language and also want to convince programmers that the new stuff is actually worthwhile."
"The most reasonable thing to suppose is that it is Gothic and Old Norse that have kept something, and Old English and Old High German that have lost something."
"A lot of these patterns are going to disappear because the languages say we want to make that a first-class concept."
"The language is more secular, the language is freer, and it's also closer to modern English."
"I find it fascinating that centuries ago, many of the words that we now use in our everyday language had completely different meanings from our modern understandings."
"The language belongs to us; if we genuinely don't say 'datum' and are not quite sure what a datum even is, but we say 'data' all the time, then that means that in our language, the word 'data' is not the plural of 'datum'."
"If you're interested in how languages develop, Verse has a couple of things that are interesting about it."
"During the period of 1500 till about 1650, about twelve thousand new words were introduced into English language."
"Hebrew wasn't designed by a German committee; it evolved."
"In terms of language and style, this period becomes more clean and direct."
"The next change would have been to put those words into sentences."
"The English language, now so limited and structured, will be reinvented and improved upon."
"Borrowed words do not ruin the language. They complement it, expand it and bring it into line with modern life."
"Since the meaning of words change over time, often considerably, the meaning of an etymon may be very different from the current meaning of a word derived from it."