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Will there ever be only one language on earth? When was the beginning of buzzwords? And why do some people say I have went?
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Cutting Room Floor
Daniel and Hedvig run through some of the stats about language loss. They’re not great, but let’s manage some expectations here.
Now for some fun. Of all the words in the American Dialect Society Words of the Year from 1998, what were the survivors? And what communities should we look to for language innovation, if the conditions for pidgin creation are no longer ideal? (Hint: honk honk.)
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Show notes
Endangered Languages: Why are so many languages dying
https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying/
The History of English – How New Words Are Created
https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/issues_new.html
Kevin Durant: ‘Our team, as a country, is not run by a great coach’ – SFGate
https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Kevin-Durant-Our-team-as-a-country-is-not-12620187.php
etymology – The original usage of past participles – English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96643/the-original-usage-of-past-participles
Is the past participle becoming obsolete? (I have went) – English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/342026/is-the-past-participle-becoming-obsolete-i-have-went
The Cambridge History of the English Language – Google Books
Google Books link
Have went – an American usage problem | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-language-and-linguistics/article/have-went-an-american-usage-problem1/81B0F49A31D4C96CF76B3AD37EFAF3B9
The Origins of Office Speak – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/business-speak/361135/
The Surprising Origin of 25 Popular Buzzwords
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/the-surprising-origin-of-25-popular-buzzwords.html
The Secret History of Cosmic Buzzwords – Out There
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/04/28/secret-history-cosmic-buzzwords/
Brown’s Stages of Syntactic and Morphological Development
https://www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33:brown&catid=2:uncategorised&Itemid=117
L1 Influence on the Acquisition Order of English Grammatical Morphemes | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-second-language-acquisition/article/l1-influence-on-the-acquisition-order-of-english-grammatical-morphemes/3263C3E82ECA4A7EB19D8F50E45FA1C3
Murakami and Alexopoulou: L1 Influence on the Acquisition Order of English Grammatical Morphemes: A Learner Corpus Study
http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ta259/Murakami-Alexopoulou-SSLA.pdf
The Natural Order Hypothesis: Definition and Criticism | Parenting Patch
https://parentingpatch.com/natural-order-hypothesis-definition-criticism/
Definition and Examples of Linguistic Prestige
https://www.thoughtco.com/linguistic-prestige-1691533
Transcript
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