Language evolves over time. Words gain new meanings. New words are added. Contractions and abbreviations change. Wars or colonies or technology (like the internet) can inject new words into the lexicon.
So it’s a gradual process over hundreds of years. Old English morphed into Middle English, which morphed into Modern English.
I’m sure you could think of a hundred words that have been invented in the last 10 years. OMG, selfie, bingewatch, humblebrag, NSFW, truther, bling, crunk are just some of the words that pop into my head that we have added in the past few years. There are plenty more.
So someday there will be a future version of English, hundreds of years from now that we might not be able to comprehend.
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