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Language Changes In Beowulf

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Language is always changing, evolving, and adapting to the needs of many people. This isn't a bad thing, if English hadn't changed since 1950 we wouldn't have words to refer to cell phones, computers, or TV. As long as things become invented and the world continue to change, so will the language. The change is so slow that from year to year we hardly notice it, except to older people who groan about the ‘poor English’ being used by the younger generation. However, reading Shakespeare's writings from the sixteenth century can be difficult. If you go back a couple more centuries, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are very tough, and if you went back another 500 years to try to read Beowulf, it would be like reading a different language.
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