Likewise, the English language’s ability to produce and absorb neologisms is an important reason why it will endure as the world’s lingua franca. The Oxford English Dictionary, now updated quarterly, revised more than 1,900 entries in its March 2011 edition, and added new terms, such as “subdomain,” “dataveillance,” and “geotagging.”
同样，英语制造吸收新词的能力是其长久以来占据世界通用语位置的主要原因。现在每季更新的牛津英语词典在2011年3月的修订版中修订了1，900多条词汇，将“子域”、“数据监控”和“地理标记”等新词纳入其中。