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What’s called “bad grammar” in one place may be perfectly normal somewhere else. #Myth12 #fa25e211o2

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Languages change because humans can’t resist tweaking things. Laziness, tech, and slang are to blame, but just like every other generation, we want to be 'cool'.#fa25e211o2

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Grammatical structures are reinterpreted by speakers, leading to syntactic change. An example is the shift in the use of relative pronouns and impersonal constructions in Middle English. #fa25e211o2

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Turns out ‘beautiful languages’ is kinda a myth. We mostly think a language sounds nice if our people speak it… I guess context really is everything. #fa25e211o2

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Why does Italian sound like poetry and romantic, but German feels like someone’s mad at me? 😂 Language can be wild. #fa25e211o2

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Today I learned about Noam Chomsky and how her initial idea was that there was a language acquisition device in children's brains when they are born. #fa25e211o2

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Does TV Make Everyone Sound the Same?
For my research topic, I will be discussing whether the media influences how people speak and what research says about dialect change.

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Dialect: a variation of a language that all speakers of a language understand. Southern and Boston (New England) dialects are examples of American dialects.

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What's your favorite TV catchphrase?📺🤔 I love watching Friends, and one catchphrase I use a lot is when Joey says, "How you doin'?" #fa25e211o2

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I love knowing that there is a word for everything😊An example would be looking at the word "receive." If you broke the word down, -re and -ceive, -ceive could not stand alone; it must be combined with affixes, such as -re.
This is called Bound Root.

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Morpheme: Carefully -> Care + Ful + Ly, there are 3 morphemes here. Fun Fact😎 The suffix, -ly, means in a manner of resulting from. #fa25e211o2

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Something I found awesome was that you can become an expert in semantics, a semanticist. You can be a formal, cognitive, or lexical semanticist. If my speech path doesn't work out, I may try this out. #fa25e211o2

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The term historical semantics didn’t become popular until 1900s when Ogden and Richard’s came out with their now famous book, “The Meaning of Meaning,” published in 1923. #fa25e11o2

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New word of the week - Hypernym: the umbrella term for a group of related words. Furniture would be a hypernym for a chair or table. #fa25e211o2

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@OryahOryah9 Hi Oryah! This is a good point it’s not really about gender, but context. I've seen speech patterns shaped more by social roles and environment.

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Myth 4 was interesting because he’s right sometimes I don’t understand the spelling of certain words. However, I think those spellings add uniqueness to the language and reflect the background or origin of the word’s meaning. #fa25e211o2

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Yesterday I learned that velum is the name of the soft back part of the mouth. I have always known that part to be the soft palate. Glad I got to learn another correct term! #fa25e211o2