Who is responsible for the greatest change to our language? Teenage girls

Re:Who is responsible for the greatest change to our languag... by WJW on Saturday September 14, 2024 @05:12AM (#41538538)

Makes sense. It has been well documented by linguists for decades that women both communicate more than men and also on average use a bigger vocabulary to communicate more precisely. Teenage girls in particular spend more time together than older women, as they don't yet have things like work and parenting to distract them.

It makes sense that the majority of linguistic innovations comes from the most capable practitioners.

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Re:Who is responsible for the greatest change to our languag... by 082349872349872 on Saturday September 14, 2024 @05:29AM (#41538607)

> for sure —MUZ

(In my headcanon "super" had come into common use ca.2000, but now I see it was already extant at least two decades earlier: "It's like so bitching 'cause like everybody's like super-super nice")

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Re:Who is responsible for the greatest change to our languag... by Ferret7446 on Monday September 16, 2024 @02:10AM (#41553236)

> use a bigger vocabulary to communicate more precisely

I contest this point. Dumping /dev/random to stdout does not imply more meaningful communication. I know many people who are fond of saying a lot of words whilst saying nothing at all.

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