Re: I'm back, sort of

In a message dated 2003:09:22 04:59:59 PM, Padraic Brown writes:

>Yes. I find myself at times making errors typical
>of Spanish speakers in English.
>
>Perhaps the English of the future will be all
>made up of errors and oddities created by
>nonenglish speakers!
    That is one idea that has some currency in some
linguistics circles and is the root of some hotly debated
controversies (i.e. the World/Global English factions vs.
the International Standard English/Basic English factions;
as well as issues arising from Ebonics (African-American
Vernacular English), pidgin and creole Englishes, "Techno-
Speak", slang, etc.)

    I think _Englishes_ of the future will inevitably be shaped
by nonstandard English varieties.
    This is very fascinating to me - like science fiction.
    "Future English" is already happening... esp'ly in California...

--- *digibunga!* ---

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     Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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