Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy · 25 juil. 2024
Linguists estimate that it takes about 1,000 years for a language to change enough that people at the beginning and end of the 1,000-year period can't at all understand each other. This holds with English—if you went back to the year 1024 AD and walked around England, you
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Apart from adding a lot more words, the rate of change of English slowed down over the past ~500 years. Once literacy and books are widespread, I think that has a stabilizing effect.
But my son asked if English would be around in 4000 years and I said probably not.
19:47 · 25 juillet 2024 · 249,6 k vues
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