On 24/03/2011 21:05, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Oli Glaser wrote:
>> maybe we will head gradually towards some sort of "universal"
>> language (though you could argue we
>> already have one - English)
> And over the next couple decades the world's official language will becom=
e
> Chinglish.  Rots of raughs.
>
>

:-)
I was thinking more of 100+ years. Sounds far fetched maybe, but I=20
wouldn't like to try and predict such things. Take for example the=20
recent thread about modern versus ye olde Chaucerian or even older=20
Beowulf era English, which is all but unreadable today. The world was=20
very different (and far "larger") back then, so I was wondering what=20
role the internet may play in the ongoing development and evolution of=20
language.

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