To discuss whether or the phenomena that made Human language susceptible to

change and development, one must summarily agree that changes in language is a
perpetual phenomenon from the smallest unit of words, phrases, clause and sentences.
Such developments have led to both development and the decline of specific means of
linguistic properties in human language. To state or lay more emphasis on the either
positive or negative change is the major area that decides whether the susceptibility of
language in relation to growth, development or the opposite determine whether this
topic of discourse will take one of the two or choose to defend or speak about
development as decay or just mere changes..
Sociologically, All Languages have history, which are synonymous to the rest of human
culture in relation to changes, which remained certain and constant. The process of
change usually takes place in the course of learning how the transmission of languages
from generation to another is always face with inhibitions, both external and internal in
nature, either based on idea or on practice, exogeneous or endogenous. Art of spoken
language as means of communication is one of the major parts of interrelationship that
differentiates between human culture and that associated to animal kingdoms.
Languages change in all their aspects, in their pronunciation of word forms, syntax, and
word meanings as well as other semantic changes. These changes are mostly very
gradual in their operation, becoming noticeable only cumulatively over the course of
several generations. But, in some areas of vocabulary, specific words closely related to
rapid cultural change are subject to equally rapid and therefore noticeable changes
within a generation or even within a decade. In the 20th century the vocabulary
of knowledge or know-how was an outstanding area, as field of study. The same is also
true of those parts of vocabulary that are involved in fashionable slangs,
colloquialism and what can easily be regarded by language conservatives as jargons,
most of these changes are related to young population of any given society, who mostly
promote fresh and distinctive changes as means of linguistic means of interrelations
with peers. Old slangs date, as any novel or film more than 10 years old is apt to show.
Language conservatives can easily consider these gradually infiltrating new words as
worse form of changes that will not help any language to do better states. The Stoics of
ancient Greece took the view that languages decay, whereas some social Darwinians in
the 19–20c have held that languages improve as they evolve. A mixed viewpoint is also
intermittently found: that some aspects of languages are deteriorating while others are
improving. However, language change is an inevitable process and is the result of many
factors, both linguistic and social. The interpretation of new modification and alteration
in terms of the improvement or deterioration of a language appears to be more a
matter of social standpoint than linguistic observation. Yet, no one can really stand
against the view that human language is susceptible to change or successfully
underemphasise such premise.
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