Words are like sediment layers
that rot over time . . . .
Some fossilize into petrified speech.
Others get covered with lexical debris.
Still others blend with linguistic sheets
fragmenting on the compost of history.
Over eons, language warps in countless ways:
most words become twisted till inchoate.
Some terms, though faithful to their original sounds,
imply things formerly not found.
Others, taken from lands far away,
change our thinking and mutate our brains.
How much of today's vocabulary
will remain beyond this brief, tumultuous age?
And as humans with computers increasingly interface
will it transform the ways both communicate?
