Comment by jonjacky
8 hours ago
In 1000 years, people speaking what they will call English won't be able to understand the English we are writing today, any more than you can understand the English of 1026 -- it was a different language then, now called Anglo-Saxon.
BUT the Latin of 3026 will be the same as the Latin of 2026, 1026, ... and 26.
> any more than you can understand the English of 1026
We can't understand the English of 1026 because almost nobody in the society of 1026 CE England was doing any writing at all in English. When a language is extensively written down, it tends to slow the evolution of the language considerably.