Natural selection of words
Darwin was right, if we consider the idea of \u200b\u200bevolution in a human context: the world we live in the fittest survive (and here is suitable not equivalent to a predator but be able to survive in their environment no matter how many and which changes have to endure), which succeeded in adopting the changes while retaining a core of knowledge, customs and effective, maintaining a tenacious bond with their community, but the true test of a language to suit can only be measured long term . Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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That is: not everything new and do not necessarily survive everything set inevitably dies. Because change is always and everywhere, and what is accepted today may be forgotten tomorrow. The Internet is a tool that, as McLuhan said it exemplifies the perfection that the medium is the message. And their messages can make us believe that simplification is the only evolutionary path for our language, that the future of our English is reduced to its consonants and initials. I think not.
The Internet, for example, is an extraordinary learning tool, is a source of texts, a scriptural boom as it had not seen for a century postcards. New generations have risen daily blog format, the epistolary communication in tirades of chat, instant chat public debate.
Change is not one and in one direction. Everyone adheres to the changes that suit (pragmatically) or that interest you (idealistically). For options that are giving our culture, for it serves our language: for memory and testing for the strength and flexibility of what we say and write what we think and feel.
is not to defend an indefensible purity of our language (English is a real melting pot of Greek, Latin, Celtic, Arab, Jewish, African American construction is a heterogeneous mixture of styles and fashions, not immobilize or petrified), because there is no greater test English survivability of its new idioms, its concepts in use, while preserving an identity-one that allows us to say: This is who we are. This is the script that we write. Taken together, our language is a portrait of everything that we have done in over a thousand years of history, everything we've been able to promote to communicate with us. And when I say history, evolution and expansion on a global scale.
English, as part of an empire, he created dialects and versions of himself to mingle with the native languages \u200b\u200bof the regions or kingdoms conquered the passage of his soldiers. It is indeed a language imposed, but I just enrich our culture. In his impulses and energy is our heritage and our legacy, the mixture of our endeavors and achievements: life for life, word for word. What began as slavery and taxation came to be an act of affirmation centuries later the English now no longer belongs to Spain but it is collective and personal property of each speaker, each writer anywhere in the world.
What the Greeks called freedom. That spirit than the English claims and represents today: without false modesty, with proud diversity. Looking to the future.
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