Stabilized languages

[Roger Wright]

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Larry said:
 
>First of all, languages do not "stabilize".  Every living language is
>always changing, and the only language that doesn't change is a dead
>one.
 
Change is at some times slower than at other times, though. And it just
isn't true that "dead" languages don't change. Medieval Latin varied
astonishingly widely in time and space, Renaissance Latin was
recognizably different again, and even the modern Latin used by the
Vatican has been continually acquiring new vocabulary.
                                                        RW