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Harvard Scientists On the Future Of the English Language |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 9:41 am |
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[Previously posted] The English language is fluid and dynamic and has been constantly changing for thousands of years. However mathematicians at Harvard have analysed language and applied models to understand how linguistics and specifically irregular verbs may evolve in the future; an irregular verbs without an -ed in the past tense will decay at a rate inversely proportional to the square root of how frequently the word is used. Huh, did you get that? i.e.a verb used 100 times less frequently will evolve 10 times as fast. For example, “wed” may evolve in the future to become “wedded”. [ Full article ] |
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