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Mandarin Chinese is one of the most complex languages in the world.
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Now, moving on to the disastrous first paragraph: It's hard enough just to figure out how the current stage of a language reflects the way we are living and working in the present. Neither the present article nor any other article about "evolving language" that I can imagine will be able to predict the way we live and work in the future. Then I'm troubled by the future tense of "will influence".
#OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY SEARCH IS A HOTDOG A SANDWICH SERIES#
Language Matters is a new column from BBC Capital exploring how evolving language will influence the way we work and live.Įven though the article annoyed me greatly, I probably wouldn't have written a post about it on the basis of the flimsy substance of the last 23 paragraphs were it not for the outrageous first paragraph, which really requires refutation.īefore I dissect the first paragraph, however, I need to point out the erroneous premises built into the capsule description of this new series following the title of the article.Īll right, "Language Matters" is cutesy, what with the dual nounal and verbal meanings of the second word, but it's too closely modeled on some current politically sensitive slogans for comfort. " China's rebel generation and the rise of 'hot words'", by Kerry Allen with additional reporting from Stuart Lau (8/10/18). It is my solemn duty to call the attention of Language Log readers to a seriously deficient BBC article: