Evolution of Languages

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English usage of fifty, sixty years ago is not english usage of today. Heck, there's plenty of language I use regularly now that didn't exist twenty years ago.

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Quite true. I was reading an article written by a flapper to parents everywhere who didn't "get" the flapper concept. One line particularly stood out:"Make love to your daughter if necessary!"Back then, "make love" meant to "sweet talk".------------------
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I just wanted to say that nobody can prove anything here. theres not enough evidence to prove the tower of babel or evolving languages perfectly correct and there never will be. but from what I see, babelists have alot more confidence in their beliefs and most of them are so shure that God exists that they dont even try to look for proof. its obvious that babelists have something linguists dont have. for one thing people who believe in God agree with 30% of the world population. this may seem little but more than 75% of the 70% left believe in a supirior being or Budda or something. Linguists dont really have a society. Also the chances of a language evolving are about 1 in (10 to the exponent of 44,000) thats 44 thousand 0s. So from what I see linguists dont have their own society to back them up.------------------
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illuminate me."