Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.
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English borrowed about 30% of its vocabulary from French, primarily after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
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The English language adds about 1,000 new words every year.
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The Pirahã language of the Amazon has no words for numbers beyond 'one,' 'two,' and 'many.'
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Constructed languages (conlangs) like Tolkien's Elvish are linguistically complete — with grammar, vocabulary, and literature.
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There are no true synonyms — words with similar meanings always differ in connotation, register, or use.
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Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.
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The Basque language has no known relatives anywhere in the world — it is a true language isolate.
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There's a German word 'schadenfreude' meaning pleasure derived from others' misfortune, with no English equivalent.
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