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Language is also temporal. New additions, words, and phrases creep into our vocabulary: Wa- tergate, energy crisis, cover up, cyclamates, DNA, rotary engine, eighteen minutes. Old phrases die: groovy, dyno, boss. We see this transition in our culture, our country. It likewise happens throughout the speaking specie.
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Language experiences cultural differentiation, however. We seem to more readily realize our differences rather than commonalities. Language becomes languages and are labeled Spanish, Russian, Swahili, or Hebrew. Further subdivisions are inevitable: The King's English versus cockney versus Southern Drawl.
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LJ We find language geographic: Is it pop or soda? Gum hand or rub- ber band? Steelers or Eagles? Language becomes words localized. We can speak using words familiar to us, but maybe native to our area. What is an egg-cream? a phosphate? a fizzy? a float? It de- pends where you are. And if someone unfamiliar with those words encounters us, we are speaking different languages. 10
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