Luck plays a role in how language evolves, according to researchers: Read a few lines of Chaucer or Shakespeare and you'll get a sense of how the English language has changed during the past millennium. Examining collections of annotated texts dating from the 12th to the 21st centuries, researchers found that certain linguistic changes were guided by pressures analogous to natural selection - social, cognitive and other factors - while others seem to have occurred purely by happenstance. (i.e. random chance) [1] Randomly changing language. On which civilization is built upon. The foundations are shifting, but nothing collapses. Look carefully. Our culture is based on nothing. Our civilization is just dust in the wind. And yet this dust is harder than concrete… Shifting with the cosmos in an eternal dance of everlasting change… Staying essentially the same as it was in the beginning…
Είμαι. είσαι. είμαστε…
Εἰμί. εἶ. ἐστίν…
Α… Ω…
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