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Then again Don, you are analyzing the musings of a five year old German Shepherd.
I must agree with you Don about the evolution of the language being an interesting phenomenon. In 2004 I went back to Finland after an absence of three decades and found that the language had changed so much that I struggled to speak with anyone under the age of about 40 years. This was particularly evident in the main cities, it was only when I toured rural areas with a much older population that my familiar first language resurfaced.
The language of Helsinki and other now very cosmopolitan cities was not a pure language that finnish once was, it was a conglomeration of finnish, english, swedish, german, italian and numerous others. With many words 'finnish'ized by the customary suffixes.
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