Which of the following items is not usually a factor in linguistic change?

The decision of a government body.

Explanation:

The language itself is dynamic in nature and thus, keeps evolving every day. There are several factors that leads to the linguistic changes which may include the influence of transition in space and social group. The environment has a huge impact on the linguistic habits of people. Thus, here in the given question the factor that would not be able to influence language patterns of the people is the decision of a government body while the geographical location, influence of other languages and education system comprises the crucial factors as mentioned above.

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.  

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