From 'ye olde coffee shoppe' to 'yo, wazzup'
2006-09-06 23:42:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
People in much more of hurry so they speak faster..hence take verbal shortcuts which change the words..then culture also takes words and uses them for other meanings than their definitions and then those slang words gets shortened and changed by being spoken over and over
2006-09-07 00:44:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question - and although my answer will probably illicit laughs from Prof. W. Anker from the university of languages. I reckon it is due to a number of things.
Mass media - accesibility to different culture, their words and languages.
Globalisation - The global village effect and needing to reduce language so it is understandavle throught the world.
Technolgy - why have the e and pe at the end odf olde and shoppe. Drooped as a time saving device.
Perhaps most importantly is the migration of people from place to place which certainly in the Western world has effected language.
Hope this makes sense
2006-09-06 23:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by kenfitameen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every language changes with time. But the English changes a little quicker, because it is spoken all over the world.
2006-09-07 01:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by genadestia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyday useage changes a language. Think about trying to talk about anything regarding a computer in Elizabethean English.
LOL
2006-09-06 23:44:50 · answer #4 · answered by Chuck N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution, new cultures adding words to the English language
2006-09-06 23:43:19 · answer #5 · answered by Kitia_98 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we are sheep and like to follow the Americans lol , No i guess it because from generation to generation the language changes ans shortens :) wassup u r lol
2006-09-06 23:44:31 · answer #6 · answered by shy pie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English changed in time because it's not a complex language... this is why so speaken in the world, and everybody likes it
2006-09-07 01:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by bizkit_ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People change why shouldn't their language change
2006-09-07 01:46:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have evolved so the language has evolved as well
2006-09-10 02:12:54 · answer #9 · answered by jaspers mom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just like ppls' styles & fasion change......
also over the generations, ppls' minds change (kindda explains the style change)... it happenes in every language too!!
this is how i think of it......
2006-09-07 00:02:09 · answer #10 · answered by white skull 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋