Stroll down Tuttle Park Place on Ohio State’s pristine campus and eventually you’ll come across the building that houses the Department of Linguistics. If you pop in, you might find a few students and instructors deep in conversation about phonology, or maybe syntax. But whether their expertise is in code-breaking or in morphological construction, they’d all be able to explain the same basic linguistic tenet to you: language is fluid. It evolves over time; this is what makes Shakespeare so hard to parse and makes Beowulf the bane of every high school freshman’s existence and lets us say literally when we really mean figuratively in 2016.
We’re buying Noah Brown as Ohio State’s top receiver after the win at Oklahoma
