Even though we do not constantly think about it, language changes slightly every day. United States as a large in diversity country continues to face new challenges with language as times continue to turn. English is categorized as a world language, because approximately 400 million people speak English as their first language ever day (Goshgarian, 2011).In addition to that English is taught in majority of non-speaking English countries as a second language. Combination of all different cultures and dialects shape new English language (Goshgarian, 2011). Vocabulary is one way to measure this linguistic shift. Usually new words are added to dictionary when they became recognized and used by many people. I believe we should accept cultural adaptations and diversity and let dictionary illustrate current trends and represent our present culture. In his essay “Do you speak American” Robert MacNeil analyzes the English language and revels many dialects that culturally define us. Essay based on a documentary shows evolution of the way Americans speak, and what influence on that have an ethnicity, geography and social status. MacNeil points in his writing that Americans do not at all talk alike, but opposite they talk completely different from one another, as an example he presents a name of a sub sandwich which name depends on the place you order it (Mac Neil, 2011).One of two American linguistic critics group presented in essay, the “descriptivist” agrees that changes in a language evidence a culture’s changing nature and creativity, and should not and cannot be stopped (Mac Neil, 2011).
MacNeil (2011) noted that growing population of Hispanic immigrants present a myth that immigration poses a threat to English. It has been proven he said, that Spanish speaking people integrated into the English language at the same rate as the immigrants from other backgrounds.