Re: Future of Spanish

On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:31:05PM -0500, Mathew Willoughby wrote:
...
>
> I guess I never thought of modern Spanish breaking up into
> separate languages since I always assumed that such schisms
> occurred as the result of geographic isolation or the sort of
> reduced communication that occurred in Europe after the fall
> of the Roman Empire.
>
> I think that modern technology (video and audio recording
> and global communication) will minimize the tendency of
> dialects to veer too far away from each other in the future.
... unless, of course, you have some late 29th-century crisis ridding
this planet from all that nice technology, rendering our distant
offspring all new noble savages...

And with this slightly off-topic remark a new subscriber has just
introduced himself.

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