It’s amazing to me how quickly natural language evolves. You can often spot changes that happened in your own lifetime.<\/p>\n
When I was a kid, something either happened on purpose or else by accident. But now I see that things have changed.<\/p>\n
Many people younger than me — adults — now say that something has either happened on purpose or on accident. The new way of saying it makes logical sense, but it’s still a little startling to realize that the version of English that I grew up with is already slightly out of date.<\/p>\n
I wonder how many other changes there have been, even in my own lifetime, to our evolving language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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