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ThefutureofEnglish
未来的英语语言变化
You'relearningEnglish,right?Youmightthinkyoucanworkoutthegrammarandhavebuiltavastvocabulary,butthenyoucomeacrossanexpressionlike'plos'.Accordingtoonlineurbanslangdictionaries,itmeans'parentslookingovershoulder'.Teenagersaretoblame.Theyhavetheirowncode,including'textspeak'whentheyareontheinternetorusingtheirphones.
Textspeakhasalottodowithinventingcoolnewterms–andthesechangequickly.Maybeyoushouldn'tbesurprisedifanEnglishfriendsaysyousoundabitold-fashioned.Themodalverb'shall'isonthewayoutbecause'will'soundsmorenaturalthesedays.BasAarts,ProfessorofEnglishlinguisticsatUniversityCollegeLondonsays,"Ifyouhavetwowordswhichmoreorlessexpressthesamemeaning,oneofthetwowordswillgetpushedoutofthelanguage."
Peoplehavebeenshyingawayfromusingthemodal'must'becauseitsoundsauthoritarianandpeoplearechoosingtoexpressobligationindifferentways.Itsoundsnicertosoftenobligationbysaying'might'.Forexample,"Youmightliketoreadthisarticle."
Progressivetenses-formedfromtheverb'be'andthesuffix'ing'-areusedforongoingsituations,forexample,'I'mwritingthisarticleforyoutoread'.Butitsusehasbeenincreasingrapidly.BasAartssaysthatthismighthavetodowithadvertising.Afast-foodchainusestheexpression'I'mlovingit'inEnglish-speakingcountries.Buttheverb'love'expressesastateofbeing–asopposedtodoing–andisusuallyusedinthesimpleform,forexample,'Iloveit'.Thesedays,peopleareusingstativeverbsintheprogressivemoreandmore.
BeforeyoudespairandthrowyourEnglishbookinthebin,beassuredthatsomewordstakeaverylongtimetochange.AccordingtoProfessorMarkPagelatReadingUniversityintheUK,pronounslike'I','you'and'we'evolveslowly–athousandyearsagowewouldbeusingsimilarorsometimesidenticalsounds.Nounsandadjectives,ontheotherhand,getreplacedrapidly–andin500yearsorsowe'llprobablybeusingdifferentwordstotheoneswehavenow.Butlet'sleavetheproblemforthefuturegenerations.

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grammar语法vocabulary词汇urbanslang现代俚语code代码，语言，代号cool酷的，时尚的term表达，术语old-fashioned过时的，老派的modalverb情态动词onthewayout即将过时，即将被淘汰linguistics语言学shyawayfrom回避，躲避au