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        Although the English language is only 1500 years old, it has evolved at an incredible rate: so much so, that, at first glance, the average person in America today would find most Shakespearean literature confusing without the aid of an Old-English dictionary or Cliff's Notes. Yet Shakespear lived just 300 years ago! Some are seeing this is a sign of the decline of the English language, that people are becoming less and less literate. As R. Walker …

…the coming century, will inevitably come to focus more on the actual message than the package it is delivered in. It follows then, that what be developed in the children of the future, more than anything else, is their ability to think; to formulate a thought worthy of sharing. For, no matter what shape the English language takes in coming years, what will never change is the desire and need our of society to communicate.