https://thehistoricallinguistchannel.com/the-myth-of-language-decay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-myth-of-language-decay Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://thehistoricallinguistchannel.com/the-myth-of-language-decay/#comment-51873 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:55:29 +0000 http://thehistoricallinguistchannel.com/?p=113#comment-51873 i like to point out how language change is not decay by saying that the language of Cicero “decayed” for over a thousand years and became the language of Dante; similarly, the language of Beowulf “decayed” for over a thousand years and it came out of the process as the language of Shakespear

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