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"We are currently in the midst of a radical reinvention of English. Not perhaps since the 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries has the English language shifted faster..." https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2023/04/20/radical-reinvention-english-language #English #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/tonythorne007/status/1667816084945137665
@bibliolater @linguistics Based on this quote you might think that the author presents some evidence for the relative speed of change at any of these points, or the other times (when, exactly?) when it presumably was slower, but nope. Just one list of neologisms after another.