The Evolution of English

The reason we have different words in English for or in modern American English at least for the animal versus the meat that comes from the animal is because of that class distinction. So cow became le buff and that is exactly why we have that to faced way to call animals and meat in English today. But language has evolved so much since the old English period precisely because there were a lot of codification and standardizations that existed in the Middle English period to tell us how to speak. And so it was natural evolutionary processes natural trickulatory forces that led language to where it is today. It really wasn't until about the 18th century that we had people that were like wow you know I like the

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