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A best-selling linguist will take us on a lively travel of the way the English terminology is changing before our sight - and why we should accept this transformation and not fight it. Words is obviously changing - but we usually do not enjoy it. We recognize that new words must be designed for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it's the utilization of practically to imply "figuratively" rather than "by the notice" or just how teenagers use LOL and like, or business jargon like what's the ask? - it often seems as though the terminology is deteriorating before our sight. But the truth is different and much less terrifying, as John McWhorter shows in this wonderful and eye-opening exploration of how English is definitely in action and is constantly on the evolve today. Attracting examples from everyday routine and employing a generous helping of humor, he shows that these shifts are a natural process common to all or any languages and that we should accept and appreciate these changes, not condemn them. Words on the Move opens our sight to the unusual backstories to what and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once recommended "blessed"? Or that ought was the original former tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the term like? And have you ever thought about why many people from New Orleans sound as though they result from Brooklyn? McWhorter induces us to marvel at the dynamism and resilience of the English language, and his publication offers a lively journey through which we find that words are ever on the road, and our lives are all the richer for it.
