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As an example of this idea, a friend of a friend in College, went to Greece on vacation. She was a history major, and had taken (ancient) Greek as a language course. So, she was the designated "translator". Her group decided they wanted to rent a sailboat, and go out on the bay. When she inquired about it, she got some strange looks, and the vendor switched to English to ask why she wanted to rent an steamship / oceanliner.

So, all languages change, it may just take a few hundred (or thousand) years.