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English, 18.03.2021 22:50 mallyosburn

Read the following paragraph from the section " Change Doesn't Mean Decay." In a TED Talk, linguist John McWhorter shared stories of people complaining about language change through the ages. In A. D. 63, for example, a Roman scholar complained that students of Latin were writing in an "artificial language." In fact, this writing was a new language that would become French! Which idea is BEST supported by this paragraph? Artificial language characters, such as emoticons, are new to the present day.

Corruption of a language precedes a new development.

Changes in use are part of the natural evolution of language.

Conventional language must be preserved for effective communication.

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