There are many of the words that were abundant earlier, but have been replaced with "simpler" variants over time. I wonder if someone from 1780 were to rate spe

There are many of the words that were abundant earlier, but have been replaced with "simpler" variants over time. I wonder if someone from 1780 were to rate speeches they would come out with exactly the opposite slope. I think they found that language is evolving over time and that evolution is mostly linear.