Re: World English (was: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs)
| From: | Paul Kershaw <ptkershaw@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 22, 2008, 22:08 |
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No - I suspect the world will remain multilingual, tho the number of languages
will probably decline.
-- Ray
I agree. This conversation also largely appears to assume that English is a
single, coherent language that will continue to be so, despite the continued
existence and formation of dialects. My wife has genuine trouble understanding
people from south of the Mason-Dixon line, for instance, while I have difficult
understanding my black (Detroiter) neighbors. I've even seen British
programming (on BBC America, for instance) subtitled for Americans even though
the people on the show are speaking English.
Before English can systematic destroy all the other languages of the world, it has to
become a Borgian monolith itself. :D
-- Paul
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