Eli5: Why is English comprised of so many different languages? And why aren’t English speakers still speaking in old English, or an even older language?
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Languages change over time and adopt words from different languages. The rate it occurs can change but it happens all the time including right now.
If you are old you likely have noticed that you people use some words and expressions that you do not and vice versa if you are young. Changes like that for centuries have huge effect on languages over long periods of time
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