Re: -es vs -en in English

Raymond Brown wrote:

> >> if I can't read it, it's not English to me ...
>
> Oh - so what makes Charles the arbiter of what is and what is not English?
Do I need to put a smiley on everything for you, Ray?

> The comparison is silly.  One should consider that every single cell in
> one's body has changed (quite often, I believe, tho I'm no biologist)
> between birth and death.  Because I am now entirely changed physically from
> what I was at birth, am I now a different being?
No, you are still an infant, you have just convinced me of it.

The point is that languages undergo continuous change, and at some point
PIE "became" Greek, but the distinction is a fuzzy one.