The Impact of 9/11 on the English Language; The Terrorist Attacks a Year Ago Profoundly Changed the Way We Speak.Business Editors DANVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2002 yourDictionary.com, the world's leading language portal, today released "The Impact of 9/11 on the English Language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. ." "This Special Report details the profound changes in public and private discourse that have occurred since that fateful day," said Paul JJ Payack, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , "yourDictionary.com felt it appropriate to commemorate the day by providing some insight into precisely how the very nature of our speech has altered." Specifically, yourDictionary.com noted a significant impact in five areas of everyday speech: 1. New words have entered our common vocabulary. Words like "Al Qaeda," "Bin Laden," and phrases like "holy war" were largely unknown in the English-speaking world until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links 11, 2001. Few outside New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of would have recognizes "Twin Towers" or "Taliban" had they heard them. Now they, and others, have become commonplace words if not historical names. 2. The meanings of old words have changed drastically. Until 9-11, "ground zero" was used more and more often to refer to the starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the ; the oft-encountered phrase "begin at ground zero" made it clear that we had forgotten "ground zero" was the point of contact of a nuclear bomb. That changed dramatically September 11. The meanings of other words, such as those of "hero" and "terrorism," have shifted less drastically but significantly nonetheless. 3. We still lack some terminology. We do not have a name for the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act . It is not a conventional war nor a guerilla war or a "police action." It is fought by policemen and firemen as well as soldiers all around the globe including at home. Each of these areas is described in depth in the YDC YDC yourDictionary.com YDC Youth for Development and Cooperation (Netherlands) Special Report. Dr. Robert Beard, YDC's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and Chief Linguistic Officer, added "Great historical events always leave their imprint on the character of our language. A look at our discourse since September 11th, already reveals the way our world, our country and our selves have changed as a result of that event." The complete online version report can be found of the yourDictionary guide can be found at: http://www.yourdictionary.com/about/news.html About yourDictionary.com The Premier Global Language Portal yourDictionary.com (YDC) provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the World Wide Web. Its website contains more than 2400 selected dictionaries and grammars representing more than 300 languages. More than 1,000,000 people a month visit the YDC website. 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