> English has been designed over the course of fourteen centuries. Wasn't English forked from several other intermediate forks (Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, etc.) go

> English has been designed over the course of fourteen centuries. Wasn't English forked from several other intermediate forks (Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, etc.) going all the way back to Proto-Indo-European? I guess that since none of those carried the name "English" (or its original name "Anglish"), all those beta projects don't count in that timespan, otherwise, it has to be at least twice that age.