After glancing through the 4th reader, I’m almost convinced that 19th century English will be as incomprehensible as Old English in a few decades….except perhaps among the homeschoolers who grow up on these relics. It’s just amazing to me how quickly our language has changed…perhaps degenerated is a better word. Simplification is not necessarily a bad thing, but I wonder if our ability to express ourselves has diminished.

Certainly our vocabulary has.

I hv to wndr how lng it wl b bfr we all rt lk ths? Lts of kds alrdy do.