Martha Barnette

And so these portraits that were just simple black and white things were called silhouettes after him.

Definitely, language is always changing.

It's always evolving.

I mean, the English language has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, and it certainly sounded different in the time of Beowulf.

You know, is the beginning of Beowulf.

And we don't talk that way now.

It's kind of unintelligible.

And every 500 to 1,000 years, you know, a language turns over.

It's hard to understand English as it was spoken before.

hundreds of years ago, and that's going to be the case hundreds of years from now.

But yeah, language is always changing.

I would say that it's changing faster now because of the internet and mass media and mass media culture, because you can just see slang terms pop up so quickly now, like skibbity, you know?

I don't know if you've heard youngsters talking about skibbity.

That was a term that kind of has a bunch of different meanings.

Skibbity is kind of a Swiss Army knife of a word that can mean really good or really bad, and it comes from this online series that involves, you know, a guy's head in a toilet, and I won't go into all that, but that just got added to the Cambridge Dictionary, which kind of surprises me because

That word has not been around very long.

And so we're always watching language change like that.

And I think it's changing faster because of the internet and because we're all cross-pollinating each other's language every day.