I didn't realize how much language is changing until I looked for a picture of a notebook. About 98 percent of the pictures I found were of various computers but I was looking for the old fashioned ones that people wrote in during school, or created a story. I realized that other words are changing meaning. One is tablet. It used to refer to something in stone, now its a mobile device although I've seen cell phones the size of a small tablet. Its kind of strange watching someone answer a phone that is so large.....LOL
In addition, even our everyday language is changing with LOL, YOLO, ROFL, etc. Yes, I got an e-mail from someone the other day that included quite a lot of what I refer to as texting language. I know the local English teacher fights that in compositions......LOL.
Even some general words have changed in meaning from something bad to good to bad to all over the place. I saw Night and Day with Tom Cruise and in there a term was used to mean whore. I was asked by one of the folks in our group what it meant and I said "Ho!" She was like "I wouldn't mind being called that!" I explained it was not being nice to the lady in there. So yes, language is changing and its fun to watch it do that.
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