This is a continuation of a post from Floccadelphia.
Every time period has it, but sometimes it's just funny to reflect on how language and vocabulary make themselves known. Google is now a verb. Muggle (from Harry Potter) is a person born without magical power. You are probably a muggle. In some places Obama is a prefix. I found out that "doh" was added to the dictionary. As in...Homer's exclamation from The Simpsons.
These are the crazy ones. But words like internet, blog, high-definiton, are all pretty common now. 30 years ago those words would have been confusing and mind-boggling. 100 years ago they might have been blasphemic.
So what will our vocabulary and language be like in the next 100 years? Maybe some of our language will blend together with that of another planet that we encounter. I dunno. What do you think?
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