What syntax facts explain differences in late 1800s vs. 2020 written English?

Solution 1:

With the advancement in Technology, comes new words and phrases, as is the case with the advent of the Portmanteau, from Linguistics, which helps to provide support towards the provided claim. I recall hearing a phrase years ago, which seems appropriate to site here, although I would be paraphrasing. It goes as such, “there is not a word, phrase, or expression, which hasn’t been said before.”

As a result, I surmise that as a result of the aforementioned quotation, together with the idea that the portmanteau allowed Language to be made easier, by bringing two words together for reasons of simplification or to allow better context to a term, such as by combining the words "fog" & "smoke" to create the portmanteau of "smog".

Additionally, for greater context, words from prior generations, go out of favor, replaced with slang terminology. For example, word selection from perhaps the 1950s or earlier, like "ne'er-do-well", which is an ostensible combination of the words, never-do-well. However over time, the definition has become to mean, "an idle, or worthless person".

In reference to today's terminology, rather than use a dated or archaic word, We (in the collective sense) have chosen to simplify words, like ne'er-do-well to now, "say what we mean, and mean what we say". The result would be to use a word contained in the definition, to describe something, saying that someone is "worthless", so as to be direct and to the point. It is then fair to state that as generations pass, language simplifies in order to be more concise and to the point.