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I read somewhere that as a solution for student suicides, IISc has decided to remove fans from hostel rooms. No fan, no suicide. This shoul...
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I see from all the blogs I follow, that people tend to follow blogs of other like-minded people (obviously?). But the problem is that, barri...
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Maybe it makes for good TV viewing, but seriously, when two parties in a debate take on black and white positions, we have no means of under...
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In a year's time I will be retiring from my job. For me and many women like me, our workplace provides the only social contact other tha...
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Hehe... :D
And believe it or not, it shows another property of a language -- evolution. The thesis is 4 years old... which is the average lifetime of a person in the institute. And I can attest the fact that the lingo has evolved significantly since then... possibly a representation of how a language would evolve over 60-70 years.
Yes! slangs evolve faster than formal language and perhaps we can see if your ratio of 4:60 is true and write another thesis.
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