Language always seems to experience the die
off of certain types of words and that's very
much according to the times dying off it happens
at the lexical level meaning the word level
it's always kind of like a reflection of what's
going on in our daily lives and there's also
things called semantic shifts where you know
the meaning of words can change as well so
there's different types of dying out's so
to speak and that could mean a word kind of
becomes obscure and sometimes that might mean
that the meaning just changes for a word so
it's always kind of cyclical which is one
of the key characteristics of language so
linguists say that language is not truly a
language if it's not experiencing constant
language change I wouldn't necessarily say
that words are disappearing from english quicker
than they are appearing it's more obvious
nowadays because we have social media and
we have all these ways to be connected and
you know for example we have buzzfeed, we
have twitter, we have facebook, we have all
these ways for kind of people to communicate
and you know every once in awhile an article
will use a word and I will have no idea what
it means because I'm not up to date with the
kids these days I suppose but words are definitely
appearing they are constantly getting made
up you know the recent ones within the past
year or two are on fleek instead of on point
so that's definitely an appearance of a word
but you know with the appearance of new words
also comes the disappearance of old words
that have kind of become irrelevant or obscure
and a lot of ways so I wouldn't necessarily
say they are dying out at a quicker rate than
they are appearing but there is definitely
a pattern in the dying out and sometimes you
know it's always going to be one of those
things that evens out so sometimes there may
be the disappearance of more words than there
are the appearance but it will even itself
out and kind of be a balancing game with language.
