Mark Pack

A little Friday afternoon quiz for my two-legged friends. How do you think the following, published in yesterday’s Guardian, was completed:

“The unrelenting force of evolution is about to take an unexpected toll on the English language by forcing some of our favourite words into extinction. The word ‘dirty’ is in most danger of going the way of the dodo, and could vanish from use completely within…”

a) 7 days
b) 7 weeks
c) 7 years
d) 70 years
e) 700 years
f) 750 years

The answer, of course, is (f). I am impressed at the confidence in their predictions and the Mao-like long term perspective that has them talking about the danger of what will happen in 750 years. What a clever bunch of humans. Woof woof.