that's right.
although, all of those writers do, and did make a concerted effort to 
maintain clarity in their pros.
even Shakespeare in his word play and drastic alteration of language rules 
of his time, and ours, was still understandable if one focused on the words 
and context in which they were placed.
100 years from now, the phrasing and wording of even this message will be 
somewhat archaic to modern speakers and writers of the language.
Just listen to old radio shows from the 40's and earlier, or old recordings 
from the first years of the twentieth century to get an idea of how things 
were said, inflections, and words used to get an idea of how things can and 
do change even in a relatively short span of years.
even the way we talk changes.  Accents change, we pick up other words from 
other languages and so on.  This is especially true across different 
geographical regions of English speaking countries.
And, like anything else, there are extremes on both ends of the issue.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: spell checking


> Things are never as good as they used to be.  That's revisionist history,
> but somehow comforting.  To see how the language continues to change, try 
> a
> paragraph of James Patterson, John Steinbeck, Jack London, Charles 
> Dickens,
> Thomas Jefferson, William Shakespeare, and Jeffery Chaucer.  Then try a 
> bit
> of Beowulf just for fun.