Re: [LEAPSECS] Risks of change to UTC

From: John Cowan <cowan_at_ccil.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:25:35 -0500

M. Warner Losh scripsit:

> 1500 years ago, no one spoke English. Chances are the people that
> deal with this problem in 1000 or 2000 years won't speak any language
> recognizable to anybody alive today.

Well, actually people did speak English in 500, as historical reconstruction
makes clear, though we have no specimens of English that old. Certainly
not 21st-century English, of course.

Still, language drift unlike calendar drift is not inevitable, and nobody
knows what effects, if any, the availability of sound recording will have on
language change.

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