That's wonderful, although I'm not supporting the ideology of reducing population, because I don't see clear argument.
@vellakovileducationalchann74535 жыл бұрын
Fantastic lecture
@ircrealstory14 жыл бұрын
I am astonished!
@BaxterPine10 жыл бұрын
I don't want to belittle the weighty and important issues being discussed here, but I'd like to hear an Oxford professor say "have shown" rather than "have showed", "fewer children" rather than "less children" and pronounce "issue" as "isssue" rather than "ishoo". I believe language should change because of the necessity to extend and purify meanings and not just from an explosion of randomness. I'd like Oxford to be a beacon in this!
@Krazydave910 жыл бұрын
Most linguistic experts are of the opinion that a persons sociolect or idiolect should be accepted and embraced as a variation in our rich linguistic culture. You only need to look back through the timeline of the development of the English language to see that prescriptivist attitudes, similar to yours, are a common feature in language development. How you speak today is largely influenced by the "explosions of randomness" of the past so ironically you are fighting to retain a way of speaking that those with a similar attitude to yours were previously trying to prevent.
@BaxterPine10 жыл бұрын
Language can change because of a new requirement (eg computer science), because poets want to stretch its capacity to express what they mean, OR simply because people are too lazy or incompetent to learn the language as it stands. A rich linguistic culture stretches itself as an enrichment rather than through a proliferation of errors. At what age should your triumph of 'descriptive' over 'prescriptive' grammar set in? Should we tell our primary school teachers simply to observe and rejoice at whatever their students write or say? Advanced civilisations moderate linguistic change and distinguish between good and bad modifications.
@lovelylocolad9 жыл бұрын
John Pine The English language evolved through a concoction of various European and archaic languages. In order to establish one's understanding and application, it could be said that even those possessing "excellent" ways of speaking, are in themselves flawed; communication through presentation (extemporanous deliveries, uses in tenses, adjectives, etc) are in existence because of the multi cultural society we live in. We are in the 21st century after all, welcome.
@BaxterPine9 жыл бұрын
Jumi Adeleke Yes, and English has stolen more words and linguistic structures than any other language, I think. That's fine. But we should have monitors to assess the changes (called lexicographers and teachers) and to decide whether to accept them or not. When you bend your arm, your triceps oppose and control the action of the biceps to make the movement smooth and beautiful. Many bad changes have slipped by - like the confusion between 'bastard' and 'dastard', still not sorted out. But we have a choice.
@maomix799 жыл бұрын
nice lecture and very interesting arguments, many of them could be criticized however...the relationship between empirical data, sociological facts and theoretical aprroach enhace lecture....great
@allankumar75527 жыл бұрын
i am very glad to to listen this lecture.
@Dr4gonshade11 жыл бұрын
As a Finnish person, that is SO funny to me :D
@springyes36689 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, it was lovely
@diinimmc65676 жыл бұрын
good lecture
@BaxterPine9 жыл бұрын
I think 'complimentary or in conflict' should read 'complementary or in conflict' (by the way).
@SALMANKHAN92611 жыл бұрын
brilliant its great i like
@asmaladan45356 жыл бұрын
I like to speak english but idn't know
@riturajkumar99166 жыл бұрын
very good
@vinodbundelasing24205 жыл бұрын
on demand for you
@AbdulWahid-yc2tq5 жыл бұрын
Great
@howtolearnenglish5967 жыл бұрын
very nice lecture
@yagyabasnet47128 жыл бұрын
nice
@mohamedgamal964311 жыл бұрын
good
@prodigus768211 жыл бұрын
It,is all right.
@jackmorris67756 жыл бұрын
Perfect to geg to sleep
@naveedkhan-zx4lg7 жыл бұрын
Nice very nice
@prodigus768211 жыл бұрын
nnnnnnnnnnn
@raghibalam78305 жыл бұрын
i watched whole video without understanding, because of i want to learn English with British accent