Isolated for Six Months, Scientists in Antarctica Began to Develop Their Own Accent

according to Lancaster University researchers, that "r"s are becoming a thing of the past in England—apart from in Blackburn, where the "r" is still very much rolling.

We might, rather, be heavily predisposed to attaching ‘outsider status’ to people who speak with a different accent to us, since such distinctions would have been experienced more frequently.

As línguas mudam. O tempo todo surgem modos alternativos de dizer alguma coisa, formas mais velhas vão desaparecendo, destronadas por novas variantes. E essa mudança, assim que começa a ocorrer, é sempre percebida como desvio, como aberração a ser evitada a qualquer custo. Mas o fato incontornável é que muito do que hoje é tido como refinado, eleva

This is what happens when worlds collide and then mingle over time. Living cultures and languages evolve and transform. Thought experiment: people still say ‘Pick up!’ when calling a busy person’s mobile, even though nobody really uses landlines that require picking up anymore. What might future evolutions of that utterance involve? Maybe one day,