I have no problem with this:

Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say.

Reading University researchers claim "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the most ancient, dating back tens of thousands of years. Their computer model analyses the rate of change of words in English and the languages that share a common heritage.

The team says it can predict which words are likely to become extinct—citing "squeeze", "guts", "stick" and "bad" as probable first casualties.

My problem is here:

The work casts an interesting light on the connection between concepts and language in the human brain, and provides an insight into the evolution of a dynamic set of words.

"If you've ever played 'Chinese whispers'," [Professor Pagel said,] "what comes out the end is usually gibberish, and more or less when we speak to each other we're playing this massive game of Chinese whispers. Yet our language can somehow retain its fidelity."

Isn't a bit racist to call Chinese "gibberish"? The game begins with English and ends with complete nonsense, Chinese. Now that ain't right.