Re: The Future Language

> Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
>>     As far as language change in the future goes, I've always thought
that
>> the development of recorded sound will slow down change in the spoken
>> language.
>
> Certainly a reasonable hypothesis, and I'd think that longer life would
> have a tendency to slow down language change as well; but either way, 20
> centuries will bring a lot of change, perhaps as much as, say, has
> changed from Late Old English to Contemporary English.
>
> Recorded sound will definitely help out historical linguists, especially
> after they have several centuries worth of records.  No more educated
> guesses about intermediate stages.  :-)
Well, considering the lifetime of most modern medias (cd : max 20 years,
LP: 100 years (??), ... of course, the "original" which the cd's are
manifactured as copies of,
that is made of silver/gold, will have a longer life span.