in the wider sense of using language, like head dumps in poetry, it is useful. >> we talked about the movement of language. let's go through a few. americanisms as verbs, she gifted her piano. what do you think? >> i don't like americanisms but i would not object to gifted. >> what about lawmaker? >> it's not at -- not a word of would use. -- not a word i would use. >> the one i cannot stand is in airports were they say this is the last and final call. >> you do not like tabloid

>> split infinitives i don't mind about. i think our rules derived from latin where the infinitive is one word. in ancient greek, a split infinitive is a beautiful construction and used frequently. >> i have never been able to [unintelligible] the most famous split infinitive is to go. [unintelligible] >> can language designed to be spoken ever be preserved in the librarians equivalent of [unintelligible] >> we will be showing have the printing press accelerated change, but also began to fix the language. the scientific revolution brought in a huge amounts of -- the internet is changing