Re: A question

At 12:04 -0700 18.8.1999, Barry Garcia wrote:
>bpj@netg.se writes:
>>In the real future English will of course have disappeared, North
>>Americans
>>speaking daughter languages of Spanish,
>
>Hmm, i can see maybe areas with high numbers of Spanish speakers speaking
>in a kind of "Spanglish". Perhaps even the English would be modified into
>a Spanish phonology. An interesting thing i saw on our Spanish language
>station, they have a show where they speak in "Spanglish". Most of it is
>in Spanish, but the two girls on the show throw in English phrases every
>now and then.
But one *meg* of years into the future...  One meg of years ago English was
the patois of part of an offshore part of Northern Europe!  Norse probably
had more speakers overall than English then.  And most of Iberia spoke
Arabic!


/BP

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