It's Friday, June 21st, 2024.

I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview. You know, one of the most

necessary features of a culture or a civilization is its language. And where you find human

beings, you find language. God made us in his image. He also made us capable of language and

thus the learning of language, the use of language, the acquisition of language, this is a part

of what it means to be human.

And you see this even as a baby's born.

And one of the first things that thrills parents

is at some point, when the baby's mouth begins to move, following the example of parents and sounds

begin to form, and then the baby starts to learn language.

Now there are many other incredibly happy milestones, but that becomes a very important one.

And as you're looking at this you recognize, okay, this is one of the ways that civilization works.

It is because we are linguistic creatures. But it also means that

our language changes over time. So you can just look at just about any language and

you can understand that a dictionary that was published a hundred years ago, well, it probably needs to be updated.

Undoubtedly, it is missing a lot of words.

And quite frankly, the meaning of words sometimes changes. And so if you want just a clearest

example of that I'm just going to use a word which was common in English usage

say a hundred years ago but now means something completely different that

would be the word queer it's just a completely different word and so if you

mean it in the first sense don't use it anymore because everyone's going to hear

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