Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Monday, December 6, 1999, 22:46 |
John Cowan wrote:
> Written English is understood by persons around the world. What you are
> proposing would be a balkanization on a massive scale.
I think it's happening anyway, or will with space exploitation.
Or maybe spoken English simply drops most of its phonemic vowels,
and the number of homonyms increases, and we add classifiers.
Gendered pronouns become 3rd/4th person obviative-style pronouns.
Number and tense be superfluous, they get drop also.
We all learn Spanish in disgust for hypermodern English.
I mean, it *could* be fun.
> Splitting English into utterly different languages would be an unmitigated
> disaster.
Good news for auxlangs, too.