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language change - Coggle Diagram

- - - - borrowing/loan words e.g. "landscape" and "bungalow"
      - compounding e.g. "user-friendly" and "handheld"
      - coinage/neologisms e.g. "widget" and "hobbit"
      - clipping e.g. "pram" and "flu"
      - blending e.g. "moped" and "newscast"
      - Acronym e.g. "NATO" and "AIDS"
      - Initialisms e.g. "LOL" and "OMG"
      - affixation e.g. "marketeer" and "disinterested"
      - conversion/functional shift e.g. text as a noun and a verb
      - eponym e.g. "pastures" and "galvanise"
      - backformation e.g. "locate" from "location"
  - - - generalisation/ broadening e.g. holiday used to just mean holy days on sunday
      - specialising/ narrowing e.g. meat used to mean food in general
      - amelioration e.g. pretty used to mean lay or cunning
      - pejoration e.g. villain used to mean a farm worker
      - weakening/bleaching e.g. shit can mean stuff "get my shit together"
      - metaphor e.g. to grasp and object or to grasp and idea
      - euphemism e.g. friendly fire meaning to direct gunfire at your allies
      - polysemy egg, foot as in feet or foot as in the foot of a hill or foot as in the measurement
  - - - not using the pronoun 'thou'
        
        no split infinitives
        
        differentiation between will and shall
        
        preposition should come before a noun
        
        no multiple negation