Baylon, Melvie Mar R.

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Language Changes

Let us begin by saying that language is an inalienable element of every man’s life. Therefore, it

is just right to say that we can remove language from any man’s existence. Where there is man

there is language. Being attached to man, language is under stresses of change as with man.

Let’s take the view of language which regards it as system of signs. Being a system it contains

conventions which delimit what it is and what it is not. Now if for example a man wields this

language. Conventions are now in the potential of change. This is because a man due to his

imperfections might create errors in the use of language that there will occur in the language lists

of change.

The language goes in to form, the graphical or written and the spoken. It can be clearly supported

that in our daily usage more of language are in the spoken form and not written. This makes the

spoken language a more prone to change than written one. But it is true that they both change—

maybe at their own rates but still they do. Now, why is it that they undergo change?

We can say that if language is use there must be some purpose in our lives that it serves.

Language is use by different people with potentials to use the language differently. These

differences might be based on their circumstances, practices, etc. For example, the Futhorc and

Ogham where systems of writing that were designed as stick-like figures. The reason for the

letters to be stick-like is that the people who used these systems of writing use it primarily on

hard surfaces like rocks or woods.

On the course of changes in the orthography of English borrowing was common. The English

alphabet that we used today is not actually made by English predecessors but was borrowed

primarily from the Roman. The Old English was also had been in contact with Latin.

Going back to purpose as one that elicits change, business hands were developed in the rise of

economic growth in the 15th century. Different hands also arose with their own reasons. Ways of

spelling also was purposely devised like the Glossic which shows the nuances of accent.