Yep. Definitely. I read everything I could get my hands on starting at age two, sometimes giving my parents grief over my willingness to read just about anything out loud. (Like the writing on the high-schooler's car in front of us at a light. I got to "Beat the..." and Mom yelled, "NO!". Took me years to realize what was wrong with "Hell out of (other school name)". :> )

And we got a full set of Encyclopaedia Britannica when I was 10. I loved sitting behind Dad's recliner and reading it. And many of my first books were things like Black Beauty and Little Women, with archaic language. The flow was easier to read, in spite of the harder words.

And nowadays, we learn brand NEW language, thanks to technology. Randy mentioned something not being useful any more, and I replied with "Ah, it's been nerfed," which engendered much confusion. Never occurred to me how game-centric the term is, or that a lot of people haven't heard it before. (To nerf something is to reduce its impact in some way, as a Nerf material does when made into something like a baseball bat. Normal usage applies to stats changing inside an online game, such as reducing the damage done by a weapon or spell, or sometimes a whole character class.)

I love language. :)