[meteorite-list] Change in core vocabulary

[Darren Garrison]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:18:57 -0700, you wrote:

>on 6/17/07 12:31 PM, Darren Garrison at cynapse at charter.net wrote:
>> 7% per what?  You left out the rate.  I'm guessing "century"
>OOPS, sorry, that is per 1,000 years.

Ah.  Would that 7 percent per 1,000 years be added onto the percent change from
the previous thousand years, like compound interest?  If so, going by a 7
percent change, it would take only 10,000 years for 96% of the core words to
change.  If you go by the low end of the estimate and say the US was colonized
12,000 years ago, that would be a 125% change of the core words.  If I'm doing
the math right (taken from this page http://www.1728.com/compint.htm).  Even if
the "interest" isn't compounded and it is straight 7 percent on the original
figure, it would take only around 14,000 years for a 100% change of the core
words.