All 5 Uses of
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Do You Speak American?
- But if our language stopped changing it would mean that American society had ceased to be dynamic, innovative, pulsing with life—that the great river had frozen up.†
Chpt Intr. *
- It is a restless, innovative society, its social patterns and mores, its lifestyles, evolving as swiftly as its genius in scientific and technological creativity; it is endlessly inventive in finding new pathways for the pursuit of happiness and marketing them to an American population approaching three hundred million.†
Chpt 1
- Over a century of musical innovation—with ragtime, jazz, the blues, boogie-woogie, doo-wop, soul, rock and roll, and today hip-hop—generations of white Americans have embraced the black imagination, millions as avid consumers, some as crossover artists like Elvis Presley or the contemporary Eminem.†
Chpt 6
- Barbara Wallraff, a widely published writer on language issues, questions the frequent assumption that, because American culture furthers innovation and openness to new ideas, that culture is inseparable from the English language: Even if the vanguards in all scientific and technological fields, everywhere in the world, used English in their work, once the fruits of their labor became known to ordinaiy people and began to matter to them, people would coin words in their local languages…†
Chpt 8
- We are endlessly creative, and that innovation in all fields constantly generates fresh language, considered slang or jargon when new, but soon made respectable or it disappears.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(innovate) bring something new to an environment