The next time you use the word 'sophisticated' think again. Because, until recently, it meant 'false'.
Earlier, the word 'sophisticate' was used when artificial substance was added as an ingredient.
Here is one more: A sophisticated document was considered a forged document.
Unbelievable, isn't it?
Now we use to appreciate someone or something with the word 'sophisticated'. There are so many such words that are used to mean entirely different earlier.
This is not an exception to English alone. It is so with so many languages.
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