MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 36 Lessons (18h 22m) | Size: 15.4 GB
English is changing all around us. We see this in new words such as "bling" and "email," and from the loss of old forms such as "shall." It's a human impulse to play with language and to create new words and meanings—but also to worry about the decay of language. Does text messaging signal the end of pure English"? Why do teenagers pepper their sentences with "like" and "you know"?
By studying how and why language changes and the story behind the everyday words in our lexicon, we can learn a lot about ourselves—how our minds work and how our culture has changed over the centuries.