M. Warner Losh scripsit: > 1500 years ago, no one spoke English. Chances are the people that > deal with this problem in 1000 or 2000 years won't speak any language > recognizable to anybody alive today.
Well, actually people did speak English in 500, as historical reconstruction makes clear, though we have no specimens of English that old. Certainly not 21st-century English, of course. Still, language drift unlike calendar drift is not inevitable, and nobody knows what effects, if any, the availability of sound recording will have on language change. -- The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> free-range chickens (except they have http://www.reutershealth.com teeth, arms instead of wings, and http://www.ccil.org/~cowan dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso
