Language change is always topical. A living language used in interaction between people does not become ready or solidified in place, although from the perspective of an individual person and periods or in ideologized speech it may sometimes seem this way. Language change is also of interest to the general public. For example, editors of daily newspapers seem to target us linguists on the verge of language change most sensitively when the change has activated talk of concern about the language skills of the latest generation of schoolchildren or the current state of the Finnish language, or when a new ten-item rapid test is needed the next day to find out whose language skills are or are not up to date.