It’s survival of the fittest in the linguistic jungle. If language is an ecological system, and words are living organisms competing for societal “resources”, words can be outcompeted for various reasons. “Words need to be used,” explains Nick Enfield, a professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney. “And there are only so many words
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Jun 03, 2024
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