Afterword.
We would not understand the sentences without reading the Modern English translation, would we? Everything has its time, including language.
Right now, English is not yet extinct, but think of how many languages that once existed in this world have already disappeared. Perhaps the English we speak today won’t be understood by people fluent in English centuries after our death? Or perhaps the English language will have gone extinct by then? Who knows?
The world is changing, and so are languages.
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