A Goodbye To Language As You Know It
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It seems like every time a dictionary publishes a new update, people flock to social media to talk about it. Whether they\\u2019re responding to the addition of the word \\u201cfam\\u201d or the dad joke,
\\n\\nThey always return to the question of what consequences these additions will have. Do they really spell disaster for the English language?
\\n\\nTurns out, the \\u201cupdation\\u201d (new to the Oxford English Dictionary as of last year) of language isn\\u2019t necessarily a bad thing. And it\\u2019s been going on for as long as language has existed. Katherine Connor Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, explains why the creation of new words is actually natural, and tells us how the ways we communicate have been speeding up the evolution of language.
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