{"id":430,"date":"2011-03-15T21:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chineseeinstein.wordpress.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2011-03-15T21:41:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:41:06","slug":"civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jason-fu.com\/blog\/civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately following my status on March 15 (&#8220;The English language has evolved from blocks of eloquent sentences to slurries of incomprehensible gibberish. Pretty soon we&#8217;ll all be speaking French.&#8221;), I went to take a shower.<\/p>\n<p>While in the shower, I realized exactly how true this is. Not just with language, but also with everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Many things, in the past, were structured; this being music, art, language, math. \u00a0As civilization advanced, so did the rules. Actually, no they didn&#8217;t. 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