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		<title>Our changing language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Canterbury Tales, so I can imagine that &#8220;English&#8221; [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/aw5652">http://tinyurl.com/aw5652</a>).</p>
<p>As an English Lit major, I struggled with Beowulf and Chaucer&#8217;s Canterbury Tales, so I can imagine that &#8220;English&#8221; 2,500 years ago must have been different indeed.</p>
<p>Imagine how someone from 2,500 years ago would deal with, like, language today, youknowwhatI&#8217;msayin? He would like go, Whoa, and then go What&#8217;s up with, like, that, you know? It would be wild, man, and he would be, like, friggin freaked out.</p>
<p>And he would certainly feel entitled to a passing grade in my class just for showing up.</p>
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