Your friend Mary thinks that languages normally stay the same forever; although people may sometimes need to create new words, she thinks that the sounds, the meanings of the existing words, and all other major features of the language should and do stay the same indefinitely. "Only slang changes," she says, and that is not really part of the language' Is Mary right about this? 单项选择题

A

She's right. All living languages do stay stable (like Latin, or Greek, but also educated forms of English). When people change things around that creates slang, which is okay in certain situations but not really part of the actual language.

B

She's wrong. All languages are beautiful and we should love them, and even though what Mary says is technically true, it hurts peoples feelings, so that's why she's wrong.

C

She's wrong. All living languages change from generation to generation, at least to some degree.

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