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Question

the question is:
(Language doesn't improve. Nor does it decay. It simply changes over time through usage) Discuss.
then my tutor gave us those lines to help us
1-People certainly think, and assert, that it improves(mainly the young)or that it decay (mainly the old).
2- Some say it improves because it creates new words to adapt to changes in society, such a new technology.
3-other say it decay, because it becomes less "poetic" or "elegant" than in previous times. They also complain about poor "standard" of English, which normally means that new ways of speaking,new accents, dialects or items of vocabulary are being created, and that they disapprove of this novelty.
4-Over many hundreds of years there are examples of people complaining about declining "standard" in English.
5-Overall,however, these assertions are subjective judgements, not linguistic ones.
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Thats all what i got , and I'm working on , If you can help me
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Answer 1

there is not much here to go on, what subject are you studying and at what level, university etc.
The discussion part allows you a free hand to go where ever you want in the answer. Try google and Wikipedia for ways into language and change with culture, society and trends. GO for academic research with the heavy weight papers, Times, Guardian, telegraph or independent. Look at the suggested reading and if this fails go back to your tutor and ask for 20 mins tutorial guidance on what is expected.
You need an essay plan and a timetable for when you will research, read and prepare your written answer.
Its a good question because it allows you lots of room to express your own ideas, but you need to build an argument, to explore an area of the question and to keep some balance to your writing, neither all bad or all good.
Happy 2007

Answer 2

Logically, language MUST have improved from the time when we had little or no language with which to communicate.

Language is closely connected with intellect and a fully developed intellect needs a fully developed language, you cannot have the ideas without the words and grammatical structure to think them. And sometimes some people are so clever they invent a completely new language like mathematics to express ideas which are difficult or impossible to into ordinary words. Even some philosophers write sentence which are are very difficult to understand - try reading 'The Problem of Knowledge' by A.J.Ayer.
To assert that language is in 'decay' means what? Probably that the speaker is an oldie (like me) who doesn't like the way young people speak, but then my parents weren't too keen on the way I spoke either.
That it improves is a given (point 2) but whether it improves for everyone at a given point in time is debatable.
Read, and it is a good read Stephen Pinker 'The Language Instinct" and your thinking about language will change forever,

Answer 3

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