Re: Information on future English language development?

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:57:11 +0100, Simon Richard Clarkstone wrote:
> I only agree with you partly there.  Due to increased global
> communications, English could also be said to be changing less, as a
> better connected language community makes change of language more
> difficult: a new word will be very unlikely to spread fast enough to
> last long.
I'm not sure about _that_.  Now, if you'd said the _absence_ of a
word... that might be different.  The sheer mass of English meseems
makes it unlikelier for words to fall out of use.


	*Muke!
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