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My name is Debora Betancur. I belong to group "B". I hope we learn a lot this year.

"(English) is a living language, adapting to an ever-changing world which, in turn, requires new and varied means of communication"- Sarah Thorne (1997).

Taking into consideration the author´s ideas, Ensligh can undoubtedly be considered a living language. In order to meet speakers' communicative needs, any language (English in this case) should change constantly, that is, in the same way, the world is changing. Just to name an example, when the Covid pandemic occurred, a lot of new words were coined or used more frequently because of the situation.

Languages are used by people, people live in a changing world, therefore, languages change all the time to adapt to it.

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Hello everyone! My name is Gracia Fernández but everyone calls me Grace. I have had a growing passion for the English Language since I can remember, and that's why I chose this path of study.

According to the material by Sarah Thorne that we analyzed in class, a living language is one in constant adaptation to fit into an ever-changing world and ever-growing community. For me, English can be considered a living language because it is constantly evolving and adapting itself to meet the communicative needs of speakers.

Some variations, for example, are shaped and triggered by constant developments in digital and social communication as well as by massive global events. From a synchronic point of view, we can consider the COVID-19 pandemic which brought about a spread of terms related to quarantine and communication. Such as the words 'elbow-bump' or 'elbowing', used to refer to how people greeted each other during this time, and also words related to videoconference platforms like Zoom (zoomester: a class semester taken through the Zoom platform).

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My name is Agostina Vaccarini and I've been studying to become an English teacher since 2019.

Languages evolve due to several linguistic and extralinguistic conditions, gender is one of them.

I think that as well as people's roles in society, languages also change overtime in order to meet current needs, for instance, the need to reduce or avoid using sexist langauge. As my classmate Debora explained in her post " Languages are used by people, people live in a changing world; therefore, languages change all the time to adopt to it." Therefore, the fact that now there are more and more gender-neutral lexicon is being introduced depicts the current changes that we are facing as a society, and as Sarah Thorne (1997) states "Language needs to reflect this". I believe that this is extremely important when it comes to teaching my students different types of jobs, for which I teach them and make them aware that not only men but also women have the same abilities and qualities to do the same job.

Even though old habits are difficult to change, as English is a living language, I think that a change in lexis is the starting point towards a more egalitarian society.