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Re: The Future Language

From:Markus Miekk-oja <torpet@...>
Date:Sunday, January 16, 2000, 15:51
> 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.