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Interesting premise, but be careful with the linear thinking here. As a counter example, Icelandic didn't change as much as English in the past 200 years. For E
by reginaldo 7y ago
Interesting premise, but be careful with the linear thinking here. As a counter example, Icelandic didn't change as much as English in the past 200 years. For English, one would probably need to look even further back in time than 200 years. Change in language use is somewhat related to the number and diversity of speakers and the number and diversity of english speakers didn't grow linearly in the past 200 years and probably won't grow linearly in the next 200 years.
- peterwwillis 7y agoDialects do distinctly diverge even if the diatribe it descends from dithers in so doing, dwelling on distant drawls describing the delivery of the long deceased.
- contingencies 7y agoThe Edward Sapirian view is that eloquent and erudite euphemisms even extend their effect to Eurozone events and thus engender experience, excepting the effervescent 'EUniversal grammar' of Eastern Europe (ex. Esperanto), and endangered Estonian.