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Re: Future of Spanish

From:Albert REINER <areiner@...>
Date:Friday, March 12, 1999, 12:32
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:31:05PM -0500, Mathew Willoughby wrote:
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> > 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post an / Mail to / Skribu al: Albert Reiner <areiner@...> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------