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Originally Posted by Targan
Totally different situation now compared to mediaeval times. We have audio and audio visual recording now, not to mention widespread literacy - slows down language drift.
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You right and, as a result, the level of information losses have increased tremendously (at the historical level). Because of that, we only keep the final draft and lose a large amount of information. Not to mention our inhability to access previous materials and the fact that these equipments break down.
One thing happen in France a few years ago that illustrate that perfectly. A commando broke in a major tax collector office in charge of controling vineyards nationwide. The commando stole all the hard disks from the computers. As a result, all informations were lost and the tax office was unable to get the informations back. The reason is simple, nobody was making paper copies anymore. A few years ago, that same commando would have had to steal at least three paper copies from three different locations.
