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What will English sound like 1000 years into the future?

  • If English is still spoken in 1000 years, what do you think it will sound like? It will not sound the same because remember 1000 years ago English sounded like Shakespeare or something like that. So what is your prediction for it in the future? Personally, I think these ridiculous spellings will vanish and become more efficient. For example: thought- g and h are completely silent. Maybe something else can replace them. success- I don't even know if I spelled the word right. These tricky double letters should dissapear. Anyway, feel free to tell me what you think.

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    SUE, you're wrong still. Old English was the language of Beowulf, NOT Chaucer. Middle English was the language of Chaucer. The language of Shakespeare was Early Modern English. We speak Modern English. 1000 years ago the language was Old English, it was NOT a German dialect, and it was NEVER a High German dialect, it was clearly identifiable by about the year 600 as a separate language from the Low German dialects from which it evolved. Don't they teach these basic facts in high school English anymore? Spelling is immaterial when it comes to language change--spelling is CONSERVATIVE, not innovative. Just look at "knight", for example. The "k" hasn't been pronounced for about 600 years and the "gh" hasn't been pronounced for about 500 years, but we still keep them in spelling. The spelling of "nite" for "night" simply reflects (finally) a 500 year-old pronunciation. Where will we go? Well, it's certain that English will not be a single language around the globe. American English and British English will be separate languages by then and we'll have to go to school to learn the other. The vowels of English are constantly rotating around, and the Northern Cities shift and the Southern Vowel Shift will make different varieties of American English mutually unintelligible as well. The consonants have been pretty stable (except for "g") for the last 1500 years, so it's probable that except for some cluster simplification the consonants will be pretty much the same (although nothing is certain when it comes to predicting language change). You haven't asked anything about syntactic or grammatical change so I won't address that except to say that there are some definite trends towards increasing the complexity of the English auxiliary structure and losing what little verbal morphology is left after 2000 years of steady simplification.

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That's interesting to think about, since 1,000 years ago Middle English was gradually replacing Old English. From what I understand, French had a great impact on English after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and a large number of French people moved to Great Britain. I'm not sure that in this day and age, if Great Britain, the United States, or any other English-speaking country were to be conquered, the language would change as much because English is so widely spoken now in many parts of the world. However, I do think certain dialects of English will continue to change. For example, with an increasing Hispanic population in the U.S., perhaps the English language will have a more Spanish influence over time. Eventually, I think there will be a more marked difference between "British" English and "American" English.

Persephone

Completely unintelligible to us, today. Just think of how much it has changed just since the advent of the internet. IDK , LOLOLOL honestly! I don't understand it at all as it is! And phenomone: Middle English is Shakesperean, and Old English is Chaucerian. 1000 years ago, we didn't even HAVE English. They were speaking German (Well, Anglian) in England at that time, and that was completely unintelligible to Chaucer...so, as fast as things change today, we won't be able to understand English in 100 years, much less 1000.

SUE

Dammit Sheng! English will just be English. It's a fully developed language mostly from German and Greek and Latin. What possible other languages can emerge out of English? Come on now, use your head. English speakers have a hard time learning foreign languages that do not sound like English. I notice that the full language of French and German would sound like English and quite a variety of Japanese words sound like English like gasu oyobi banku which is Japanese for gas and bank. But it's not really a sentence nor a fragment, just words.

Max

idk. lol Thumbs down? It was a joke. Guess I'm the only one to get it. Have you read how the young people talk and spell now? Do you not think that they will have an infuence on tomorrows English language? They are our future.

Lee.K

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