Your generation has started using a previously existing word in a new way: you have changed the meaning, and some of the other linguistic features of the word. You use the word with the newer meaning in an online post. When you check your comments, you find an angry comment from a prescriptivist who read your post: she says you have 'misunderstood' the meaning of the word, and that by 'mis-using' it you are 'destroying the language'. What would be a fair and reasonable response to the issues she raises? Choose the best answer, below.单项选择题

A

Standard languages and the languages of highly educated people do normally stay the same across generations, even over centuries for languages like Latin or Greek; but sub-standard forms and ‘slang’ regularly do change. I happen to speak a less educated form of the language, but that doesn’t mean I am ‘bad’, just ‘different’!

B

Prescriptivists are focused on diachronic issues exclusively. She needs to consider phonotactics!

C

Languages have always and will always change. If that’s ‘wrong’, then every modern language (and every language ever, except the first human language) must be ‘wrong’.

D

Prescriptivists describe, descriptivists make judgements.

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