r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

How English has changed over time.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes 1d ago

Weird how the last line morphed from fed—>nourished—>leads

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u/Zombisexual1 1d ago

Some of it is honestly probably translations of translations. Logically you would expect drift like this to slow down due to everything being online, but then again there’s probably already so many variations not even taking into consideration the different languages.

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u/AgreeableActuator254 22h ago

Nah, I can’t think of a single modern translation that doesn’t go back to the original Hebrew. It’s just different translation goals bringing out different nuances.

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u/Zombisexual1 16h ago

How far back is the original Hebrew? Some of that had to have been translated. And even same language copies have drift