why is the spanish language becoming simpler and stupider over time? for example, the older spanish phrase "digan lo que dijeren" doesn't really exist anymore, because the verbal tense is no longer in use. for example: > digan lo que dijeren, el escritor nace, no se hace.  which means "whatever/regardless of what they say, writers are born, not made." but 'dijeren' is in a 'literary' tense of the verb 'decir' that died out a while ago. and there are some other tenses like this one. you can find them in books like don quixote, but modern spanish has been simplified.  why is that? is this happening to other languages as well? is english more retardeder than it was in the 1600's?
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