Capitolo 26
with that in an actual novel. When a spoken language is judged by the
standard of the literary mean and correspondent, in some of his/her aspects it
test to be conservative, in others progressive. Show his
conservative tendency holding back a lot of words and sentences that have
fainted of literary use. The English of the Biglow Papers, when
comparative with the literary discourse of the time, abundantly it illustrates this
fact. This conservative tendency is especially well visible in districts
remote from literary centers and those of us with that we are familiarized the
vernacular in Vermont or Maine it will call in him a lot of characteristic words back and
expressions that it abandoned a long time ago the literature. In locutions of Virginia
is felt what they have been as soon as current in literature since then
Shakespeare's duration. Latin literary and colloquial probably you/he/she was now drawn,
more distant separately that the two forms corresponding of discourse in English,
because Latin writers tried to make the literary language as very as the Greek
in his/her form as possible, so how Latin literary it would naturally have
different more quickly and more widely from the conversational Latin that
formal English has deduced away from the colloquial English.
But a language spoken to its development is progressive as
conservative. To the certain influences that change it is especially sensitive.
He likes the concrete, picturesque and novel, and it has a tall
the appreciation of humor. These tendencies conduct him/it to invent a lot of new words
and expressions that have to wait for months, years, perhaps a generation,
before they is approved in literature. Sometimes they is not never approved.
The history of such words as buncombe, beau, Mugwump, plot and
joy-ride illustrates for the English the fact that words of a certain kind reunion
a more hospitable reception in the language spoken that they does in
literature. The writer of comedy or farce, the humorist and the man in
the road doesn't feel the constraint that you/they put the canons of good use