Re: World English (was: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs)

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Kershaw
> Regarding the above statement, can I say: "No cross/no crown"
> anyone?  Can we move on from this topic, it's entirely
> speculative and seems to not really serve much point. Who
> cares if English will be or wont be the global language in
> the future?  If you're interested in *creating* a future
> global language, or imagining what English (or any other
> language) will be like in the future, then show us what it
> would be like! Post a sketch, post a link to a website with a
> grammar! In short, get back to conlanging.
>
> -Elliott
>
> With respect, while I agree that this is off the topic of
> conlanging per se, the discussion does provide a framework
> for the discussion. Conlangs tend to be created in isolation,
> as if all Klingons would speak one language, and so on. There
> are occasional references to "this is a dialect I'm not
> familiar with," and Tolkein had a palette of languages, but
> for those people interested in speculative extraterrestrial
> fiction, it's worthwhile discussing what forces drive
> linguistic differentiation.
>
> -- Paul
And speculation about the future of any particular languages and the world
they exist withing could be considered a sort of conculture.  The dynamics
of languages and how they expand, contract and diverge is certainly still
linguistics topic worthy of any discussion regardless of which language.