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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @07:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @07:31AM (#509823)

    Talking about being specific with modifiers, almost all of the ancient languages are like that. The first written languages were specifically tailored by and to the mathematically gifted. The 'intellectuals', if you will. The aim of the languages at their time of formulation was to preserve knowledge by creating a community around knowing something - what we can still see in maths.

    The degradation of the modifiers towards a more lenient grammar can be looked upon as a sign of diffusion of education to common people from the upper echelons.

    But even without looking at it as social problem but purely a linguistic phenomenon, the 'common tongue' has existed before formulation of grammar rules and yet both borrow a lot of each other.