Even if this is a millennial reign of peace and prosperity, processes of language change will not stop.
A measure of comparison is the system of biological nomenclature, which has maintained stability of names in the face of increasing knowledge of organisms over a period of a quarter of a millenium. There are no ISO standards for scientific names--the system has succeeded through consensus, by biologists agreeing that a stable system is worth the trade of quite a bit of individualism (not to mention the periodic and sometimes raucous conventions when the rules are modified).
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