Where do rules for new language come from?
While there are some "dead" languages, American English is not one of them. Every year new words are added to the dictionary and definitions are changed or added to.Today we use a much different form of english than in Shakespear's time.
How we speak and communicate governs how new rules are formed. The usage of slang words, the new use for older words, and a constant need for new words fuels the need to continually alter the rules.
New forms of words come about when someone trys to communicate something that he has no words for, he tries to say it faster or more melodically, or when he chooses to use an old word for a new purpose. New phrases are formed to communicate something specific.
Linguists will analysze the new ways for conversing and will publish rules in dictionary's and other source books accordingly, however, the rules for the new language are formed by those who invent and use it.
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Holy freaking crap guys. We've got 4 days before this next paper is dead-lined and we've got a whole three unedited stories in our issue #2 folder. We NEED to meet before Thursday and do some major brain-storming + Story-writing if we don't want an F in our entire Comm 1 Honors class. Now I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather not have an F. I apologize for not taking the initiative earlier. If I don't have any responses by Monday Night I'm going to contact Sarah and we'll get together with an email letting you all know when and where so you can show up if you want. If everyone could please please Please go and get some stories before then that'd be fabulous.
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Ian Novak (contact me with the bccpinkpaper e-mail)