Your friend Amita thinks that languages stay pretty stable across generations. Your other friend Chae-Won thinks that all living languages naturally change, at least to some extent, across generations. Who is right?单项选择题

A

Amita is right: they stay stable (except for sub-standard speech like slang, and dialects)

B

Chae-Won is right: so long as any language is used as a living language, it will always change at least in some ways across generations.

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