Language is a living thing

来源: 2010-05-25 20:40:49 [博客] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读:

It is changing all the time. However, language is more art than science. Those changes in a language usually come along with demographic, social and economical changes, rather through reasoning. Behind every word spoken, there is a brain, a mind. It takes much much more than reasoning and logical debate to change a mind. I would not bet my time on it.