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Good morning, listeners.
早上好,听众朋友们。
Today, we are very happy to have Doctor Michael Williams to discuss evolution of language.
今天,我们很高兴让Michael Williams教授讨论语言的演变。
Well, Michael.
好的,Michael。
Thank you. Very pleased to meet you all here.
谢谢。很高兴在这儿见到你们。
Michael, there have been many theories about why languages change.
Michael,听说有很多关于语言演变的学说。
Can you give us some examples, please?
你能否给我们举些例子呢?
Of course.
当然。
The first established theory of language change is one of decay and decadence proposed in the 18th century view.
第一个确立的语言演变理论是在18世纪提出的腐朽和颓废理论。
Their reasoning is that the old Indo-European languages like Sanskirit, Greek and Latin all have complex declension and conjugation schemes.
他们的推理是,古老的印欧语言,如梵文,希腊语和拉丁语都有复杂的变形和共轭方案。
Overtime the number of cases dropped,
但很多都被丢弃不使用了。
and the modern Indo-European languages have far fewer cases for declension and conjugation.
而现代的印欧语言中,变异和共轭的情况要少得多。
It is said that people get increasingly careless about their speech,
据说人们对他们的言论越来越粗心,
so they are "decadent" and have allowed the once complex language to decay into such a "simple" language.
所以他们是“颓废的”,并允许曾经复杂的语言腐烂成这种“简单”的语言。
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