Questão 937693

Brave new words

The English language is a dynamic phenomenon. Like your mobile phone or the grass in the garden, it is continually ___________, constantly acquiring new characteristics. Many of these changes occur because of the way we live. As the world __________ we need to find different ways of describing it, to fill the gaps in our vocabulary for new ideas. Some of these words will stay in our vocabulary, others won't. Only time will tell. But the ways we ____________ new words will continue, and will create many more new expressions in years to ______________.

(Kerry Maxwell. Brave New Words: a language lover‟s guide to the 21st century. In: Global Pre-intermediate coursebook. Clandfield, L. Oxford: Macmillan, 2010.)