Words in the information age mauri rapp; which statement best represents the main claim of the passage? a) words can have many different meanings, and those words change due to historical events. b) words have fixed meanings, and when time goes on, all old words are thrown out for new words. c) words can have many different meanings, and the information age has created many new meanings for words. eliminate d) words change little over time, and if they do, they have to be voted on by all speakers of the language.

The correct answer is C) Words can have many different meanings, and the information age has created many new meanings for words.

With the raise of new technology and new forms of communication, technological terms were invented, giving some existing words a double meaning. This can be confusing for someone that didn't grow up with the internet, and someone from the Internet Age would be confused if you told them that monitor is also a type of lizard.

emerson essentially believes that traveling is overrated. he supports this perspective through an initial focus on "the idea" of places like italy, england, and egypt, and the fascination of "educated americans" with them. he argues that those places only took on the grand, majestic ideas that they represent because "they who made england, italy, or greece venerable in the imagination did so by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of the earth." yes, those places are grand, but only because they so clearly represent the places that they are. the art and culture of italy, england, and egypt is authentic, and therefore significant.

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the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this