At one time our view of this phrase might have been only one, the first one, while today there are millions of possibilities. If we were frozen in time right now and woke up in the year 2099, we would be surprised and shocked to find ourselves there. If we had no way of going home, we would have to stay, and adapt to the new cultures. We wouldn't have seen what had happened before that, so we wouldn't know what to say or how to act. But, if we had stayed in 1999 and let our evolution take place, we could have seen everything. By being thrown into the future this is like learning a new culture all by itself. So as I have discussed language changes with historical events and time. Time changes it, the influences of people change it, slang changes it, and history changes it. We all live it, and the everyday change is so subtle most of the time we dont even notice it. But if we were zapped into the future, we would find it foreign to us because we do not know the language and cultures. Historical influences can bring together two cultures, destroy many, and make new ones. We all have different views of what language is and how it changes. Those stated are just my own and those of the authors in my bibliography, and they might change when we share information with others, getting their ideas and using ours as I have done in through my research and essay. Our standards and meanings of words change too, our sounds and syntax grows to accommodate for new concepts. New concepts help us to understand the world; new concepts are made with time and necessity. Language is a wonderful thing that we all use and change ourselves to suit our own needs. ...
