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Old 26-08-2009, 02:27 PM
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No one has ever stopped language evolving. Language experts predict that international English will sound and have similar diction to Indian/English within the century. To our great-grandchildren our manner of sentence construction and spelling will sound as unintelligible and outlandish as Chips Raferty or Bradman sound to us today.


When we get frustrated with documents that don’t conform to our own way of communicating, it may be well to remember that the average person in Shakespearean days had a vocabulary of 500 words and they were not certain to have the same letters twice in the same manuscript. Today the average person knows 2000+ words and we largely conform to the similar spelling processes.
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