Language change can be a good thing because it keeps everything interesting and current. It also stops language being boring and is a way to build your own personal identity. Another postive is it can help to close the gaps between cultures.
Language change can be negative because people may not always understand what others are saying and words can loose meaning.
My Veiw
I think that language change is positive because language needs to be updated to suit the time. Despite this being my veiw I think that slang and made up words are not good for language because people cannot always understand you and they often hazve negative connotations.
What do you think are the most important influences on language change?
I think that telivison and radio are the biggest influences on language change because people listen to them and pick up some new words. For example people have started top say "proven" when a few years back they would have said "this is proof" or "it has been proved".
Do you think some of the more recent additions to the language will survive? (e.g. peng, bare, butterz, mandem, bbm, cba, lol, i-phone, i-pad, smart phones, fraped ....etc).
I dont think these will stand the tick of time because they are just passing crazes and are only used in informal social situations and it is mainly youngsters that use them.
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