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Originally Posted by Ekaros
Language might be huge thing. The shape of English could be very much different in 100 years time.
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Doubtful. The effect of mass communication has been to essentially freeze the structure of the language. We get new words, but the underlying language remains much the same. The English of 2013 is pretty much the same as that of 1913, 1813, and (to a slightly lesser extent) 1713. You would have not the slightest difficulty in reading "Pride and Prejudice", which was published 200 years ago, in 1813, and Jane Austen would equally have no difficulty in understanding a novel written today.