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Celebrating Language Change

Friday, September 3, 2021 12:17

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Joanna Bourne, Historical Romance

I wouldn’t want anyone to think I’m a language fuddyduddy, clinging to past-pull-date English. Language is a living thing. I don’t expect it to freeze solid in 1969*.

Language chases after change in the real world. Names are born for the new stuff: wiki, tweet, google, go cup, podcast, bitcoin, DNA, penicillin, page view, Peace Rose, moonwalk, on brand, quark.

Bright, shiny new things, these words.

Words let us look at familiar things in new ways:

right-size, single-use, metrosexual, non-binary, slipstream, catfishing, mansplaining, fail as a suffix (skateboard fail,) salty, to “ghost” on somebody, Black Lives Matter, geek, I can’t even, slut-shaming, binge watch, photobomb, throw shade, because reasons, because awesome, nerd, gender fluid, double down, rewilding, first world problem, singular they . . .

We play with language.

I adore that**.

*1969 is the first use of “pull date” according to Webster’s

** Careless errors of grammar, OTOH are not useful nor clever nor beautiful. I stomp along the transition boundary where they ooze into general acceptance, sneering at them and fluffing out my feathers.

RITA-winning author Joanna Bourne writes historical fiction set in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and Regency England. It was a time of love and sacrifice, clashing ideals, and really cool clothing.

Source: https://jobourne.blogspot.com/2021/09/celebrating-language-change.html

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