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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7442548" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>[Sorry for breaking the silence, but it seems the topic is a different one?]</p><p>Core parts of a language do change, but they change slowly, too slowly actually. It is possible to observe many linguistic changes in one's lifetime -America is in the middle of a consonant shift as we speak-, but ultra common core words hardly ever change. </p><p></p><p>That's the thing with language, the most common something is, the most resilient it is to change. Linguistic special cases hardly ever last without reverting to the general form. Except -that is- if that special case happens too often, then it becomes resilient and harder to change. Just take a look at irregular verbs, they are extremely common in everyday speech, but uncommon, corner-case verbs, they all are regular. The same with German and strong verbs. And with irregular nouns -like person- and adjectives. They are part of the most common 500 words in English. </p><p></p><p>Articles and pronouns form an even more common class of words. They are extremely common and form the basis for English language. Once you learn their proper use, you have basically learnt English. It may seem strange, but getting the proper use of pronouns -and auxiliary verbs- is the most challenging part of learning English as a second language, precisely because they are the most intensive in use. They also carry a heavy burden in meaning. Just try to use I,Me,My, Mine to talk about a third person.</p><p></p><p>NOt saying that this change cannot happen, but it is quite unlikely. It would take a lot of people adopting the same new pronoun and sticking to it for a few centuries until it becomes second nature for a lot of people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7442548, member: 6689464"] [Sorry for breaking the silence, but it seems the topic is a different one?] Core parts of a language do change, but they change slowly, too slowly actually. It is possible to observe many linguistic changes in one's lifetime -America is in the middle of a consonant shift as we speak-, but ultra common core words hardly ever change. That's the thing with language, the most common something is, the most resilient it is to change. Linguistic special cases hardly ever last without reverting to the general form. Except -that is- if that special case happens too often, then it becomes resilient and harder to change. Just take a look at irregular verbs, they are extremely common in everyday speech, but uncommon, corner-case verbs, they all are regular. The same with German and strong verbs. And with irregular nouns -like person- and adjectives. They are part of the most common 500 words in English. Articles and pronouns form an even more common class of words. They are extremely common and form the basis for English language. Once you learn their proper use, you have basically learnt English. It may seem strange, but getting the proper use of pronouns -and auxiliary verbs- is the most challenging part of learning English as a second language, precisely because they are the most intensive in use. They also carry a heavy burden in meaning. Just try to use I,Me,My, Mine to talk about a third person. NOt saying that this change cannot happen, but it is quite unlikely. It would take a lot of people adopting the same new pronoun and sticking to it for a few centuries until it becomes second nature for a lot of people. [/QUOTE]
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