In our opinion, grammar doesnt rebel.

Speech is naturally, constantly changing; weather is borrowing words from other languages, or making up new ones due to necessity. Before the printing press was invented in the year 15xx, it might have been easier for language to be more static, since it was more difficult for dialects of different regions to interact (in England there where many variations of English, according to region and previous military occupations) but when the Bible was printed in English, and distributed amongst different areas, a standard version of English was used. This is a very early example of how media affects the way we speak. These three small, common words (so, like, how) have undergone massive changes in the way they are used in the last decade or so, especially, but by no means exclusively, in the speech of younger people. We can trace the source of these changes mostly to imported TV programmes from America what some people call the Friends phenomenon The United Kingdom and Australia are heavily influenced by American television shows, so it is natural that younger people in these countries adopt what they are exposed to in the media because they like the way it sounds. When The Beatles where at the top of the UK music charts, Liverpool English naturally became very popular amongst teenagers, just like Geordie English is popular nowadays thanks to reality shows, this is evidence that media does highly influence how we speak, causing usage to change from one generation to another. It is common to hear older people talk about how younger people butcher the language. However there is a time and place to use expression such as I was like... or you are so not... and most people are aware of it. The interesting thing about language is that its evolution is meant to help people communicate more accurately, but there is no real evidence of improvement or decay of it. Like, so, and how being used differently and more often are only evidence of the elasticity of language. People may speak however they want, and

it is fine as long as they are understood, thus being the purpose of language, and this seems to be the generally accepted approach to the matter. It is likely we will witness many more changes in language in our lifetime, thanks to communication channels being so fast, and it is also likely that as we get older we will be less accepting of these changes, after all its hard to teach a dog new tricks, and after certain age people hold on to what they accept as normal. It already happens to many people in their 20s when they hear teenagers chatting amongst themselves. The author does state But history shows us that todays horrors are tomorrows standard usage, just as todays youth are tomorrows grumpy old men and women. How inevitable is that! But one thing the article does not take in to account is that despite language constantly changing, people still appreciate languages timeless jewels such as Edgar A. Poes stories, or Shakespeares poetry. As long as we can gladly appreciate differences in language throughout time, our speech and grammar are welcome to change so we can learn countless ways of expressing what we need to say.