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"Achingly unacceptable: the bad language that bugs...
April 3 2015 , Written by Ola Fagbohun
"Achingly unacceptable: the bad language that bugs me ..." http://t.co/3tn4eH4JDN
Ola Fagbohun (@DiverseTraveler)April 03, 2015
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Achingly unacceptable: the bad language that bugs me | Jeremy Butterfield
A great linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure, once wrote: "Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law." That truth anyone who thinks about language must immediately recognise. Professional linguists regard such change as neutral, an inherent fact of language.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/03/bad-language-bugs-me
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