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Rokken, actually, most of our language is made up of words that no longer have anything to do with their original roots. "Capitalism" springs to mind -- Marx intended that to be a dirty word, and the feisty free market types took it as a badge of honor. "Democracy" is often used as a synonym for "freedom", but most people fail to understand they are diametrically opposed.
If you want a language that doesn't change a lot over time, you are going to have to speak Latin. Any living language evolves, and words will gain new meanings of which the purists disapprove...
[ 05-12-2003, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: Thorfinn ]
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