Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

Language change is a fact of reality... English will change/split.  And t=
he
English
speaking world is not as tightly woven as one would think.

Canadians and British are fighting against American cultural colonization.
Americans suffer from a superiority-complex.  (Countless
civilizations had their moment of fame in history before them, and many m=
ore
shall after the US is forced [by history/time] to retire.)
Half of Australians want the Queen, almost half do not--likely Australia
will
experience struggle against British "rule".
Jamaica and India keep the language only out of habit and could care less=
 if
their dialect distanced further/became recognized a language of its own.
Puerto Ricans have quite some variety as well.  I doubt the splitting of
English
could be hurried any more.

And one more note about the alphabet.  There is a reason that the French,
the Italians, the Spanish, the Portugese, and the Rumanians do not write
their
language in Classical Latin.  Yes, needless to say the difference is not
quite
as extreme with the English languages yet, but (even if not between the
three main English Countries, Britain, Canada, America; others will be
unlikely to make special effort to conform their language to that of
foreigners.)
it will.

----- Original Message -----
From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: F=E4nyl=E4jikyl Inglyx


> Don Blaheta wrote:
> > And you want to hurry it along?  Sure, English will split up,
> > eventually.
>
> I don't see this happening, at least not on Earth, assuming civilizatio=
n
> doesn't fall.  As long as there's contact and communication between
> different parts of the English-speaking world, and especially travel,
> there'll be a tendency to stay together, it seems to me.