verything in one long continuos sentence, while others more advanced may follow the rules to the very letter. How can language have meaning? Through time it may lose and gain new meaning, for example through things such as historical occurrences. Imagine during the war, a whole new kind of lingo spreading like wild fire through fighting countries. "The study of how language contains meaning is called semantics" (Friend 145), and through this we can see what has occurred and what will occur, kind of like a time machine right before our eyes which we have to constantly study to use correctly. There are many different influential people who have a major effect on our lives. Family, friends, and even those in our political system or government may affect our lives in both positive and negative ways. Influential people also play a part in our evolution of language. Influential people can coin words and do many other things that will affect our language. They may use one word that has become a habit to them, but do they know they might make it a habit for a million people? Ten million? The whole world? This example is shown in speeches of important people, books of all kinds, and especially through television and movies. In my life I know that my friends and I make up sayings all the time that are used by many people. It is our own dialect or slang The change made by historical events might not be obvious but there is change whether we notice it or not. The change is usually obvious in historical events, which affect the entire world such as the "meeting" in the Gulf, which has stirred up an entire planet. This meeting may one day start a war that will devastate the earth. As gas prices rise, everything needing fuel does. Also the means of communication between two people change, from ignorance to shouting, to whispering, to nothing between the two our view of the concept must be clear before we can actually communicate efficie...
