The University of Reading in England has completed a study of the stability of language. Researchers found that fifty percent of the words we use today would be unrecognizable to our ancestors living 2,500 years ago (http://tinyurl.com/aw5652).
As an English Lit major, I struggled with Beowulf and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, so I can imagine that “English” 2,500 years ago must have been different indeed.
Imagine how someone from 2,500 years ago would deal with, like, language today, youknowwhatI’msayin? He would like go, Whoa, and then go What’s up with, like, that, you know? It would be wild, man, and he would be, like, friggin freaked out.
And he would certainly feel entitled to a passing grade in my class just for showing up.
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