Frankensteinian Phrases: The Mosaic of Modern Times

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This essay examines what McGrath calls the "IV trickle" of modern language transformations. It discusses his arguments for such a claim as well as examines some slang examples that clearly indicate his train of thought. Lastly, it brings forth another example to illustrate McGrath's conclusions.

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"Language is often likened to a living creature, infinitely evolving yet with a solid, and even material, structure. The nature of this structure is tightly, and reciprocally, connected to the world in which language exists. Life and language evolve simultaneously. Some scholars postulate, however, that the nature of this evolution has recently changed. Gradual linguistic transfusion has been replaced by the more immediate concoction of slang words (McGrath). McGrath counters modern slang developments with historical analyses of linguistic evolution. He says that the English language is a "Frankenstein creature, originally built of spare parts." "

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