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What Language will we speak?

What language will we speak in 125 years?

  • Chinese

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Spanish, central american

    Votes: 1 3.2%

  • Hindi

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • English ( We will never give in!)

    Votes: 19 61.3%

  • Japanese

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • African American Vernacular English

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • the average american will know 4-5 languages

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Gaelic (We all come to our senses and realize that this is the best language)

    Votes: 5 16.1%

  • Arabic

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other (state and give reason)

    Votes: 4 12.9%
  • Total voters
    31
celticwar17

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In America or even where you live if you think it will change, Due to globalization, immigration, war, and other factors what language do you think we will be speaking in 100-125 years?
 
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celticwar17 said:
Due to globalization, immigration, war, and other factors what language do you think we will be speaking in 100-125 years?
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Are you speaking about America? If so English.

If your talking globally, I think it will be divided just like it is now.
 
no idea. all i know is that when 900 years you reach. look as good as me. you will not.
 
Binary.........
 
Vulcan, logically.
 
Latin.

My prediction is sound.
 
Assuming the world changes as much in the next 100 years as it did in the last, it is absolutely impossible to predict anything about what things will be like then.
 
The US will be speaking english that has been influenced heavily by Spanish and Chinese.

With English being a dynamic language it absorbs new ideas and words from other languages as the need arises, with no language police to keep it pure it will continually change
 
English with really bad Aussie Accents. =)
 
We'll have augmented reality language-translation in just a decade or so, where someone can speak to you in any language and the subtitled translation appears on your glasses or contact lenses. I can't imagine that the concept of "what language will we speak" will even have any meaning in 125 years.
 
Kandahar said:
We'll have augmented reality language-translation in just a decade or so, where someone can speak to you in any language and the subtitled translation appears on your glasses or contact lenses. I can't imagine that the concept of "what language will we speak" will even have any meaning in 125 years.
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Star Trek Universal Translator anyone?
 
celticwar17 said:
In America or even where you live if you think it will change, Due to globalization, immigration, war, and other factors what language do you think we will be speaking in 100-125 years?
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It will probably be english, but in a form that is much different than what we speak today. One of the beauties of the English language is that it will coopt words from other languages and still be called english. So even if another language gains dominance, we will just adopt the useful words and keep going.
 
megaprogman said:
It will probably be english, but in a form that is much different than what we speak today. One of the beauties of the English language is that it will coopt words from other languages and still be called english. So even if another language gains dominance, we will just adopt the useful words and keep going.
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True enough. English is constantly changing. Just look at the difference between American and British English.
 
It will be English, but an evolved version of English.... Somebody will read this site and think how proper and sophisticated we all sound, like Shakespeare. He invented words too. :)
 
English will be more widespread globally than it is today. It is something that has about reached a critical mass and isn't likely to change even as the global economy becomes more oriented toward Asia. In this part of the world, there are few languages that are spoken widely in more than one or two countries. The language used in commerce between those countries is more often English than any other. Even in this part of the world, more countries use English as an official language than any other language. Most commerce between countries within this region is also done in English, not Chinese, not Japanese, not Hindi, not Indonesian... nothing is going to change this anytime in the foreseeable future...
 
Within 125 years, more than 80% of the thousands of languages spoken by humans will be dead languages. A majority will be extinct.

There are linguists and anthropologists who are treating this as a terrible tragedy, as a monumental loss of human culture and learning. I call it progress. The fewer languages spoken by humanity, the more accessible the whole of human knowledge is to every individual human being.
 
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